We are walking around, sitting around, riding around, and flying around on a planet in a solar system, in a universe, in a galaxy – or in a galaxy in a universe. We look up and we see many, many things, and then when we look down we know that beneath us there are many things.
If we go on the water in the ocean we know there’s a great depth below us, but we’re not cognizant of that depth. We’re also, when we walk around in this world, not cognizant of the heights above us, yet we are in recognition that there are things above us that are way beyond our reach, that are way beyond our ability to see, that are beyond our ability to comprehend, just as when we are on the ocean we realize there’s a great depth to that ocean beyond our ability to comprehend, and beyond our ability to see.
For some people, the fact that they can’t see the stars closely, and they can’t see the planets closely, and can’t see what is above us closely has created a challenge for them. And they have decided that they want to see these things more closely, and they want to comprehend them better, and they want to understand them better. And people invented telescopes so that they could get a better view of what’s going on out there. People invented submarines so that they could get a better view of what’s going on inside the ocean and beneath the ocean.
We have all of these explorers who climb high mountains, who go to the depths of oceans, who go to the heights in the sky, who go to places where no one’s traveled before to find out what’s there.
In truth, the most unexplored place in all of the universes is within the human being. The most unexplored place is the depths of who we truly are; the knowledge of who we truly are. All of the wise men tell us that to know your Lord you must know yourself, but how many of us spend our time trying to know who we are?
The vast majority of existence travels the surface of illusion and makes it their life. We ride this boat over illusion yet we let the water of illusion enter the boat. The difficulty is that if we let the water of illusion enter our boat, we are intermingled with illusion, and when we become intermingled with illusion we lose the truth of who we are because we become hypnotized by the illusory forces in existence.
But there is a place that is outside of illusion that’s available to us. There is a depth to us, and there is a height to us, and we must scale that highest place within us, and we must submerge to that deepest place within us. And what is available there to us is greater than all of the elemental mysteries above and below us.
Within the depth of us is reality, within the heights of us is reality, and reality is not elemental. Reality is beyond the elements, and as long as we are searching for truth in the elemental above us, below us, and around us…
