Beyond Understanding
Never mind what you don't understand. Never mind it. Perhaps you don't need to understand. If understanding means explanations, you don't need them.
Who on Earth can comprehend Me? What does that matter? The more infinite something is, the less you understand. Your grasping can only contract that which you attempt to hold.
Understanding is trying to hold something in place and keep it there. Understanding is a way to finish with something, but you will never be finished with infinity any more than you will ever finish with Me.
Understanding often gives you a sense of completion, but it is a false sense. Even though completion is Truth and you are already complete, your experience on Earth is a hurtling through the universe to find your totality. Understanding has little to do with it. Finding has a lot to do with it.
When you have an experience, you have it whether you understand it or not. You like to identify your experiences and label them in a place. That feels good to you. And you use words to identify your experiences. Yet there are no words to describe infinity. There are no words to describe you. There are no words to describe Me. How limiting are words! Perhaps you would have greater understanding without premeditated words. Perhaps all the things that matter are wordless.
What do trees know of words, and yet are they not wise? Are not rolling hills wise as they spread themselves before you? What stories they could tell! They do tell them but not in words.
Too often there is a disparity between words and Truth. I do not mean what you call lies. I mean that the words, "I love you", no matter how true, are nothing next to the love they represent.
And sometimes words are used because you think they will bolster your truth, make it more true, as though words are wands and create. Sometimes you hope that your words will become true, that words of love, for example, will manifest love.
Rely less on words. Rely more on truth. Words are empty without truth behind them, and words, even backed by truth, are empty next to the fullness they represent.
So what are you to do then? Well, just be in love. Be and love. Being is silent. Words are talk.
And yet what a service words do perform. You read My words now, My attempt at telling you about yourself and the fathomless dimensions of you and of Me, and My words bring you closer and higher. They help your lesser thoughts to drift away, your lesser thoughts that jump on this or that small event or happenstance. Even in matters of great moment, your thoughts are lesser than the moment anyway.
The most gorgeous representation of the sun is but a representation of the sun. The greatest painting of the sun may recreate a great sun, but it captures only elements, only aspects, some consciousness of the sun. But no matter how great the painting, it is not the sun.
And so it is with words. They can do a lot. They encompass the world. They can weave through the universe. But they are not the universe.
Man cannot live by words alone.
He cannot live by the world alone.
He cannot live alone. He cannot be alone. He IS never alone. Oneness is not alone. Oneness is full. The Oneness that you are is beyond the greatest poetry, beyond the greatest music. All the greatest things in the world are merely symbolic manifestations of the greater that is. You have only a hint of the beautiful totality that is housed in you. You are coming to the infinite more. Not to the talking about it but to the knowing.
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