Discerning the truth of reality.

Reality can dawn only on an unclouded mind. It is always there to be accepted, but its acceptance depends on your willingness to have it. To know reality must involve the willingness to judge unreality for what it is. To overlook nothingness is merely to judge it correctly, and because of your ability to evaluate it truly, to let it go. Knowledge cannot dawn on a mind full of illusions, because truth and illusions are irreconcilable. Truth is whole, and cannot be known by part of a mind. T-10.IV.2:1-6

Schucman, Dr. Helen. A Course in Miracles (p. 346). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The bumper reads, “Reality cares nothing about your beliefs.” Most people’s minds are clogged with bullshit. How can one be aware of reality when their mind is clouded over? Until one wants to clear the clouds of bullshit away, reality can’t be apprehended.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This search involves recognizing, acknowledging, and discarding bullshit. So much of what UUs study, teach, and pursue these days is bullshit and is it any wonder that the denomination is so small and not growing? The denomination has great intentions of searching for truth and meaning, but it has no idea where to search and what it takes to discern the Truth.