Trust

Sometimes the hardest people to trust are those closest to us. We tend to be judgmental when it comes to those nearest and dearest to us; we think we know them, and we are sure from prior experience that they will act the way we habitually see them acting. Again and again we make assumptions about who they are.

Once we learn to see them from a fresh vantage point, without all the prior baggage we've piled on to their existence as pertains to us, we can "forgive" them for what ever may have happened before. We can approach them from the innocent perspective from someone seeing them for the first time, clean, and then we can be with them simply, as they truly are. It's not a matter of "doing our best" around them, seeing them. Once trust occurs it's not a matter of "doing" with those around us at all.

Once trust occurs we can enter a state of pure being. That being is the heart of true innocence - and that comes from forgiveness, a forgiveness that is not even really necessary, a forgiveness that is the last illusion.

In the state of pure trust nothing can hurt us except our own thoughts, and those thoughts can be changed with awareness, realization of how they work to twist our perceptions of other people.

In the state of pure being in truth we realize we are love and we can just be that.

We must trust our loved ones, we must trust our teachers, we must trust those who have offended us, we must see what is real for what is is everywhere, and we must trust ourselves.

And in that instant of pure knowing, that there is no harm, only a physical experience of joy to be had, we can walk through fire, face the guillotine if need be, tread over land bombs without a scratch. When we align with being we can see ourselves in truth as immutable.

Today I trust, trust, trust in the truth of love that is real.