Love + Truth —> Peace
by Steve Beckow
Posted on February 14, 2024
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Happy Love Day! Here’s my contribution to our appreciation of love.
In the language of the growth movement, I’m pushing my edge again in hypothesizing that “love + truth —> peace.”
Love plus truth leads to peace.
How so? Well, remember what peace is. I don’t mean existentially because I don’t consider myself qualified to speak to that. I’ve experienced peace but not so extensively that I feel able to address “what it is.”
But operationally, as a felt experience in our lives, as a divine quality or state, I’ve found peace to be the residuum, the default of a sentient being – and no different than the Self. (1)
It seems like a long time ago now that Constant Comment, the monkey on our shoulders, stopped. (2) That in itself grants one a modicum of peace.
But on one occasion on which I experienced true peace, which I describe in footnote 1, everything stopped. All reactions to the world were silenced and I was left truly with myself. What a blessed relief it was.
As long as I associated peace with the body, peace felt like granite. But when I released that association and experienced peace unto itself, all heaviness left.
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I was in that state of peace as I just wrote the words above – and did not realize it. Once I awoke to the fact that I was, everything about my body relaxed. At this moment, the ego-mind fell silent.
Negative thoughts and emotions still vie for my attention but no one is listening. They bark for a while and then go away, seeking a willing listener.
Love draws us in the direction of whatever we attend to lovingly, by the Law of Attraction. If we love the truth, we’re drawn to that.
Truth uncovers the falsehood in our lives and releases it, bringing us one step closer to fulfilling the purpose of life: Knowing who we truly are. (2) Truth sets us free from illusion.
Love plus truth leads us on to peace. Peace – stillness, no desire but for reunion with God – (3) is who we are. Love is who we are. Truth is who we are.
I rely on love and truth to carry me to and bring me ultimate peace.
Footnotes
(1) Here is an account of one experience:
While lying down, I had an experience of watching my thoughts and feelings flow by me. Later, Archangel Michael, in a personal reading, told me that I was “interdimensionally travelling.”
I felt as if I were on a train, watching it slowly leave the station and looking at the faces as they passed by. I suddenly saw a red-headed man who had a remarkable composure to him. I was struck by it on a spiritual level and took a mental snapshot.
As soon as the man was recognized, it was as if he shot out an energetic dart at me. A bond was made and an experience had. I said to myself: “I know this depth of peace that this man has shown me. It’s the Natural Self.”
Immediately I found myself sinking into a deep, deep sense of peace, way down deep. I ended up in a place that was absolutely solid. It was as if I were standing on a slab of granite.
Later again, in An Hour with an Angel, Michael also described peace as being like stone and I remarked that that was my experience as well. I would have expected downy softness.
The solidity of the ground under my feet probably reflected my own inner stability, which seems to be a gift of true peace when it becomes permanent, as Mahatma Gandhi illustrated.
This peace passed understanding in the sense that the mind was so still I’d have to describe it as inactive, archived, taken offline. There was no such act as understanding going on because the mind was decommissioned for the moment.
Of course the experience passed, as do all short of Ascension. (“The Peace that Passeth Understanding,” July 18, 2017, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/07/18/the-peace-that-passeth-understanding/.)
See also:
- “Peace is Like … Granite,” August 22, 2019, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2019/08/22/peace-is-like-granite/
- “Deep Experience of Peace,” March 5, 2016, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/03/05/deep-experience-of-peace/
(2) See:
- “Out of Jail at Last,” August 20, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/08/20/out-of-jail-at-last/
- “I Feel Happy, Said the Troll Under the Bridge,” August 24, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=312813.
(2) See “Ch. 13 – Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf
(3) Which alone does not transgress the Law of Karma:
I am all that a man may desire
Without transgressing
The law of his nature.
(Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 71.)
