Collage as meditation: On truth
Join me as I contemplate the word truth and create an abstract collage. This is the second in an ongoing series of collage mediations. I invite you all to join me. Please share using #collageasmeditation and I hope you enjoy! Drop any questions or thoughts in the comments. I have a collage with me video where I read this essay aloud, or you can simply read below.
Today I am thinking about truth. Specifically, I am thinking about what it means to follow our truth even though it may not align with the truth of the outside world. I am thinking about how so much that we take in is subjective because it all comes through the filter of our perspective.
How does it look to stand in ones’ truth in a world that pushes you to stand in line, button up, don’t get too emotional but stay attached enough to stay plugged in…to continue to want the things they want you to want. How would it feel to hold the personal authority to be in our truth even in a world like this? To know that even though we have a part to play, that we also know in our heart of hearts this isn’t all there is.
I spend a lot of time agonizing over my purpose. It feels like one must push and pull ourselves…smooth out the creases and trim the ragged edges. Perform our best…get that gold star. But what if our purpose…our truth…is to experience? To be here, in the messy moment, taking things in? What if we are pushing for all that life could give us without appreciating that life has already given us herself?
I’m also considering the idea that if we are here to experience life itself that perhaps all the choices we make are apart of that larger truth. They’d have to be, right? And if experience is the purpose, then that means there is no wrong, no right, only the moments and the actions we take. How can we hold our truth and how that feels intuitively with this knowledge? Can we stand in the uncomfortable in-between? Can we hold the balance? Can we ultimately surrender?
One must think that surrender is the choice here. The more we push against what is, the more torn apart we become. We begin to suffer. Everything feels unbearable. How can we let go of expectation? Is it possible to keep our truth, to live it, while also living in a state of surrender? At what point is it fruitless?
Which brings me back to experience. If we are here to experience, and if that is the purpose, the truth of being…then nothing is fruitless. We take in our experiences, let them go, and sit in the in-between. Maybe that is truth.
That’s all for this week! I hope this meditation has served you well, and if you have any thoughts on this topic or would like to request a topic please drop a comment.
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Rikki aka Moth
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I love this meditation and deeply resonate with what you wrote. I was looking at your zines and I think it says you’re located in the Midwest. I am as well. 💚 hello neighbor
Thanks for putting to words so many questions I’ve been mulling over lately. Especially “How would it feel to hold the personal authority to be in our truth even in a world like this?” This is one to explore in my journal for sure. Glad I’m not the only one in the thick of finding/understanding truth and purpose.