‎"The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer— they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer."

-Ken Kesey

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of life.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to be the self.

Heart, I said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.

~ Rumi

"Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being."

~ Eckhart Tolle 

Losing an illusion makes you much wiser than understanding the truth. 

Understanding or preaching truth is easy to the mind, but finding it in yourself - not as a concept but as who and what you are - that's not even comparable. This is the difference between preaching and being. Do you preach about love without attachment but cling to the person you are with as if they are "yours"? Do you preach about unconditional love but judge others or set rules and conditions around your love? Do you preach about living in the moment but live through expectations of the future? Do you preach about oneness but still look outside of yourself for peace?

This is not to judge such experiences, but simply to allow us to observe our fears and open ourselves up to truly letting them go. Chances are that we are already in this process, our souls have a way with triggering the right experiences to bring our blockages to the surface. ;)

2013 is the year of transformation beyond concept, not the year of "I like this philosophical post on facebook" or "I preach my wisdom" but let me keep my old belief systems, fears and identities. It's time to go through whatever inner-process we need to let go of our illusions and BE the truth - the light that we are. Peace is within us, so why is it often the last place we think of looking?

"Am I choosing to live LIFE through the peace that I am? Or live life through a story in my mind..."

► Truth As A Concept, Truth As The Truth: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2012/11/23/truth-as-a-concept-truth-as-the-truth/