Expressing the truth without acknowledging the source of Truth is seeing light that doesn't change you, a fresh breath of air maybe, an experiencing of a joy that is fleeting. A truth may bring relief, it may even shut the mouths of hearers, but it can not set free.
Here is an exercise in truth: (In my mind's ear, I can hear Alan Alda make a profound soliloquy out of it.)
Gratefulness is a large room. When you find yourself tied up in knots, stressed in the mess, seeing stupidity all around you, obeying senseless directives, unable to free yourself from the boredom or internal tyranny, stretch out with gratefulness. The soul is not bound to the circumstance, gratefulness can free you of the smallness of your vision. If all you can think of to be grateful for is the opportunity to be grateful start there. Get personal with this, "I am grateful for lessons I have learned, people I have known, air I have breath, places I have seen.." The cacoon that bound and stressed you begins to fall away you enter the "large room" called gratefulness. As you revel in the lightness, the fresh air, the space beyond circumstance, you can feel the profoundness in the moment. The cessation of the darkness, heaviness and confinement, RELIEF! And you can see you are blessed beyond others.
This exercise works! Because it is a glimspe of light, but it will not bring lasting freedom from darkness. Why?
There is Truth about Him in it - FIND IT! Enjoy the gifts of life and light, but seek the Creator, the only true God, the Giver of Life and seek THE Light. Jhn 17: 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 7. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
