What Influences Me?

When I get rid of all the things of the self, then only is the Truth known. It is only these false things that are preventing the Truth form flourishing in me. If my action is the contradiction of the Truth, how can I claim the Truth?

Then if I am influenced by my experience by what is in my mind, I cannot give expression to that which is beyond my mind; I will be giving expression only to what is in my mind. What is in my mind is not Truth. I f my actions come merely from my experience, then the Truth is not in me. But If my actions arise from loving my neighbor as myself, I will give expression to the Truth.

If the Truth I know is built upon what I have seen, heard, or read, then it will be superficial. In discovering the Truth I must search my mind to see what is false, and anything that I hold in my mind about the Truth is not the Truth. I become only a mere gramophone changing the records. I must become the musician and the music at the same time, not merely listening to another. therefore I must understand the creations in my mind in reaction to others, to things external. I must see the falseness of these creations, for they are but ashes, not the Living Truth which cannot be destroyed, perverted, because It is not put together in my mind.