Blog #56--Everything Has An Ending, Except Universal Truth

There’s an old joke that goes something like this: two siblings are arguing over which one loves their mother more. One says, “I love her twice as much as you do.” The other one responds, “I love her 10 times more than you,” after which the quick retort, “I love her one hundred times more.” Wanting to win, the second sibling says, “I love her an infinity.” Not to be outdone, the first sibling answers, “I love her an infinity plus one.”

The word infinity implies a number without end, so adding one to it is inappropriate, thus the joke. Actually, infinity isn’t a number at all. It is the absence of a number. Infinite concepts are impossible for the human ego to understand because our minds are finite in nature. Everything we perceive with our senses has both beginnings and endings.

The word “eternity” poses the same problem for us. We are told there is a heaven and a hell, and we can either be rewarded for a good life by progressing to heaven upon our deaths, or we can be punished with eternal damnation. Whether true or not, we use the word “eternity” often but fail to grasp its true meaning. There is a part of us that is eternal and understands, but few of us manifest our spiritual energy on a daily basis within three-dimensional Earth.

Our egos want things to last forever, especially our own lives. But confusion reigns supreme on the subject since our egos want something they cannot even begin to comprehend. We become caught up in a paradoxical trap of wanting things that are impossible while discounting that part of us that truly is eternal.

On Earth, everything comes to an end. I was reminded of this recently when driving by the building that had been my wife’s and my Insight Bookstore for 16 years. Much to my dismay, the old structure had just been bulldozed to the ground. The real estate management company that purchased the building from us apparently decided it could make more money by selling or rebuilding than by leasing the property. This was their prerogative, but it saddened me nonetheless.

The building had always been special for us, and I guess it had a similar history for those who owned it before us. Among other things, it had been a successful flower shop, an insurance office and periodically a couple of rental apartments in addition to a private residence. In fact, one of our bookstore customers had lived upstairs while attending college in 1961. She had a photo from her college days which showed the same furniture we found when we purchased the place in 1986. She was one of many who said the place had an uplifting energy for those present.

Things change, and life goes on. We rise, and then we fall. It is the nature of life on Earth. There are truths we hold dear, but these are relative rather than absolute truths. In other words, there are exceptions that prevent 100% accuracy. A finite world works through an interplay of opposites. Getting close to one extreme creates a force which pulls it back toward middle ground. Our truths are fleeting at best.

The only truths which are absolute are found within eternity. I can’t describe them in a finite article, any more than I can perceive of them with my human brain. I know they’re there because of glimpses we all get throughout our lives. I mention some of these in my book “It’s a Secret, So Pass It On: a Toolbox For Life.” But none of us can express the perfected, eternal aspect of our nature on a regular basis while we continue to believe we live in a finite world.

I am confident we will all eventually become one with Universal Truth and will no longer need the lessons up-and-down cycles provide us while we reside on Earth. But until that day arrives, we must continue to experience both the good and bad, the creative and destructive, that dominates our daily lives. It’s no fun to lose something or someone we love, but it is the way of things.

Accepting our limits is the best way to touch our unlimited potential. Such is the paradox of life.

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