I remember spending years arguing with my mother about what was true. We could experience the same situation and describe it very differently. I wanted her to see what I saw, to acknowledge reality for what, to me, was obvious and true.

Then one day, something stopped me. I suddenly recognized how much my certainty of reality was supported by having other people see things as I did. She simply did not have that same agreement. But did agreement mean that I possessed the truth?

Something loosened. I could see how firmly each of us stood inside our own account of reality. Whatever the differences between those accounts, neither of us could contain the whole within our position.

Letting go of my attachment to “the truth” and my need for her to agree with me was freeing. I began to experience that no one can possess the truth or encompass the vastness of reality.

That moment stayed with me as my exploration of truth continued.

I began to recognize how much our understanding of reality is shaped by our experiences, beliefs, conditioning, and the perspectives we’ve come to trust. We can become so invested in what we know that we lose the capacity to recognize what lies beyond it.

Recognizing the limitations of my own perspective opened something important. I became more willing to encounter reality without needing it to conform to what I already believed.

Years later, through the practice of Mutual Awakening, I began discovering something beyond that openness.

The Livingness of Truth Within Shared Unity

When we enter shared unity, we have access to a reality that isn’t organized around either person’s individual perspective. We’re no longer trying to establish whose understanding is correct or arrive at an agreement about what is true. We enter a shared reality in which something can reveal itself that neither of us could have accessed alone.

Through Mutual Awakening, I’ve begun to experience truth as a living ground of being, continually revealing itself through us.

There is a simple recognition: This is real. This is true.

The knowing of truth has become a profoundly visceral experience for me, a deep knowing that is felt throughout the body, beyond what is spoken and beyond any belief I might have held about what is real or true. It is different from insight or understanding. The mind is involved only as a quiet receptive vessel. There is no questioning as to what is true or not.    

What continues to astonish me is that truth is alive. Within shared unity, something is continually revealing itself, and we are discovering it together. What becomes clear and true in one moment opens into a further discovery in the next.

We are changed by what is revealing itself. Our understanding, our experience, even our sense of who we are can shift as we participate in this living reality.

Truth is no longer something I am trying to establish or defend. It becomes something I am living inside of, something that is continually revealing more of itself through our participation.

Within shared unity, Truth expresses through us without efforting or having to decide what is true and real. It frees us, allowing whatever we are experiencing to be spontaneously shared and openly received.

Through Mutual Awakening, I have come to know Truth as an integral, living creative force. It is not simply something we recognize or express. Truth itself is active, moving through us, revealing what is real, and bringing forth what is becoming. It has its own movement, its own intelligence, and its own creative power. As we become increasingly available to it, Truth activates, supports, and moves us into entirely new ways of communicating, creating, and being human. 

It is very evident that it isn’t MY truth or YOUR truth or even OUR truth. There is only Truth, fluidly revealing itself moment to moment as we are together within shared unity.

I wonder what treasures of the future are waiting to be discovered, and what it will take for us to find them.