In the first essay of this series, ‘The Treasure Buried at Home’, I traced the journey from childhood intuition through decades of seeking to the recognition of the quiet, causeless joy that is our essential nature. In the second, ‘When the Divine Dreams It Is Human’, we explored how this recognition reveals that your very being is God’s own presence – not separate from the divine, but the divine itself shining as your most intimate sense of ‘I am’.
But this understanding raises the most practical and pressing question of all: if this is true, what about the world of objects, relationships, beauty and love that fills your daily experience? How do we reconcile ultimate truth with the lived reality of creative work, intimate relationships, and the profound experiences of beauty that move us so deeply? This final essay in the series explores how understanding yourself as divine presence transforms rather than negates your relationship with the world, revealing how truth, beauty and love unite in what I, when seven years old, referred to as God’s dream – and how our purpose remains to make that dream as beautiful as possible.
When Truth and Beauty Seem at Odds
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