The Thunder of the Meaningless

"Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. Be still today and listen to the Truth. Be not deceived by the voices of the dead, which tell you they have found the source of life and offer it to you for your belief. Attend them not, but listen to the Truth." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook Lesson 106, 2:1-4

"All things are included in the Infinity of God, not separate and apart from God. And so it is impossible to demonstrate them. The only demonstration we have to make is the demonstration of God, and then we find all things added to us, included in us. Abundantly made manifest. So it is that the first step in this direction is to thoroughly clean out the old house. Cleanse the temple and rid it of all its desires until there is no longer a desire for anyone or anything in the outer plane; until the heart cries, "My soul thirsteth only for thee, O God." -- Joel Goldsmith

I love the phrase, "the thunder of the meaningless." It encompasses everything that passes for life in this dream world. Learning to be still in the midst of it all, to listen to what is True even in the midst of the dream... this is the challenge. Everything that goes on in us and around us on a daily basis is based on one premise: that there is something in it for us, that there is something out there in the world we need to do or be. This keeps us endlessly spinning, endlessly reacting, endlessly striving, endlessly caught up in the seemingly all-consuming meaningless details of life. It's irrelevant whether those details are supposedly physical or spiritual... if we think our good depends on how we act or what we do, then we are caught in the dream, looking for answers in the dream.

Joel Goldsmith points out that the Allness of God IS our completion. We have no need to keep looking for happiness and fulfillment. We have no need to try to change ourselves or the world. What we have a great need for is to be still and listen to the Truth. Only by doing this can we cleanse our minds of what is untrue, and remember Who We Are.

We all seem to lead different lives, with so many different stories... stories of happiness, stories of sickness, stories of stress, stories of relaxation and pleasure, stories of fear and suffering... we could go on and on, for the dream winds on and on, the wheel of samsara turning and turning. But there comes a time for all of us when we cry from our heart, and mean it: STOP! NOW!! I want to wake up!!! This true prayer is the beginning of listening. Then we are led to be still and listen to the Truth. There is no other way to hear truly.

When all the voices of the world become valueless to us, we find that pearl of great price, the treasure of the ages, within our very own Being. And as we rest in the Love that We Are, the thunder of the meaningless becomes only a cry for this Love. And we know this Love is what each and every being longs to remember. May we be still and listen to the Truth, so we can allow Truth to extend through us.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." -- The Bible; Matthew 13:45-46