Giving Thanks: January 17, 2007

(from: "Journal: Into the heart of the Amazon in search of Truth" )

I am forever grateful to the Shipibo community of San Francisco, for providing a place where I could transform my life and myself. With the aid of ayahuasca, and through seeking for answers, I have come to understand many of my self-sabotaging, and self-limiting ideas and beliefs. I have come to a different understanding about my awareness that was hidden before...hidden by life in a modern society full of distractions.

This path is discovered by all who seek....not only through the use of ayahuasca, but all those who seek, will find....through whichever path is chosen. What am I seeking? How much action or effort am I giving to this search for answers? Truth seeking is first doubting, and then desiring to know Truth. Truth comes from Knowing, and Knowing comes from Direct Experience.

I was living with many false truths before I came to Peru. Truths that I was taught, or that I read about, or truths that came from other sources. Very few truths were my own. But before, I had never really searched for Truth. For the most part, I accepted what religion and society told me to believe.

What is truth? Truth is Love. Everything else leads to pain, loss, disharmony, separation, destruction, and suffering. What is Love? Each person has the answers within. Love is the Truth – it’s who we are.

With the understanding now gained, living on this land in Peru is no longer necessary. It feels like it will soon be time for me to leave the cacoon, leave the classroom of life, leave the nest, and Live what I have come to Know, and live from a place of Love.

Where to from here? Into the present moment, the only thing that exists.
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(from: "Journal: Into the heart of the Amazon in search of Truth" )