You still imagine that truth
needs pointing at and telling you: ‘Look, here is truth’.
It is not so. Truth is not the result of an effort, the end of a road.
It is here and now, in the very longing and the search for it. It is nearer than
the mind and the body, nearer than the sense ‘I am’. You do not see it
because you look too far away from yourself, outside your
innermost being. You have objectified truth and
insist on your standard proofs and tests,
which apply only to things
and thoughts…
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour,
nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about.
It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are
eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your
own. Just stop running away by running after.
Stand still, be quiet.