One of the greatest challenges I find when writing posts is to describe concepts or ideas that are not meant for words. They are meant to know. Like the title of this post, I search for the reference of this quote, and I don’t find it; however, it is within me as if I’ve heard it a million times

Everything I know, I’ve always known. Everything I am, I’ve always been.

In a time earlier than our own, we were not so technological. We didn’t email each other or read up on things anywhere other than the library. When we went to the library, it was hard to find what we were looking for; you had to hope that a book would just fall off of the shelf, and sometimes it did. For all the other times, we looked to our own experience for answers, or the experience of those around us. We searched for mentors and teachers at home, and even abroad, if you could afford that kind of thing, but now, we have everything at our fingertips at any moment. At least that is how it seems.

The truth is, the Internet cannot replace experience. It cannot project emotions that rock you to the core in the same way as a person speaking the truth to you, in person. It can open a window for you to look in. I can paint a picture and if my words strike just right, maybe I can even touch your heart. Maybe we can connect even though you are there, and I am here.

Journey to Discovery

The Internet is a journey of discovery. It is a fascinating place, filled to the brim with information and ideas that have never been shared on a global scale. It’s exciting! I learn something new many times when I go poking around – if I’m looking in the right places. I see the brilliance of us, as humans. I see our ingenuity. I see our creativity and our search for the answers. Sometimes I see the dark – sure, but mostly I find we are still good.

I notice most of all that we are searching. We are reaching out and trying to grasp, desperately, at our own sense of self, at divinity, at the thing that is so much larger than us. We want to be it. We want to touch it. We want to be enveloped by it. We don’t realize we already are divine.

Pure truth hovers around us. It is in each person, and we can access this information if we are quiet, and when we listen. Answers and truth rarely come from outside us, and when they do, they must always be accepted by our internal truth. Instead of searching externally, I ask you to stop and look internally. The truth of the universe exists in you.