Joseph B. Majdalani (JBM)
ISBN: 978-9953-405-80-3
Truths Along the Path of Consciousness
Happiness is relative; it grows or diminishes according to each person’s level of consciousness. Absolute happiness does not exist on Earth because everything embodied on Earth is relative and subject to the law of relativity… while all that is absolute exists beyond the system of creation!
A person’s actions towards themselves first, and towards others second, determine their level of consciousness, and consequently the extent of their happiness… for happiness grows with the growth of consciousness, and vice versa!
Everyone experiences pain according to their capacity to endure and understand it. Therefore, people do not differ in the magnitude of their pain, but in the level of their consciousness! The ratio of pain to consciousness is equal for all. In other words, if the ratio of your pain to your level of consciousness is seventy percent, then the ratio of another person’s pain relative to their level of consciousness is likewise seventy percent; yet the level of consciousness itself differs. Therefore, everyone experiences pain in equal proportion!
Pain is not futile… It is a person’s ignorance of the meaning and purpose of pain that renders it futile in their eyes!
No one can convince you of your own truth except yourself… Yet truth is too vast to be fully comprehended all at once or during a single lifetime!
Truth needs neither affirmation nor denial… It is the person who needs to be certain that the truth resides within them, radiant like the sun. They only need to awaken their inner vision and become aware of their true Self… There, the truth is the irrefutable righteousness, and there is no way to refute or deny this righteousness!
The butterfly is no different from the caterpillar that retreated into its cocoon… Rather, the butterfly is the caterpillar, transformed! This is the key, the password: transformation!
You acquire new information through words, and that information transforms into understanding in your mind. Then, as you engage in life, this understanding turns into practical application, tangible and verified by experience. Finally, this application transforms into consciousness, because application generates experience, and experience generates consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the culmination of acquired information, not because information is different from consciousness, nor because information vanishes into consciousness, but because information transforms into consciousness! The proof is in your memory, where information still exists… in your mind where understanding persists… and in your being, where experience matures… all lived in the laboratory of daily life!
As for the (new) factor that has been added, it is consciousness! Not because consciousness springs from nothing, but because it was latent and dormant within the information and was brought to light or rather awakened by practical application. Thus, this (new) factor emerges within your being.
Blessed be those who strive for the greater goal – consciousness.
This book– story– is an autobiography which confessions reveals the inner secrets of the self, with all its mysteries and sorrows. It also uncovers how its author arrived at knowledge after enduring severe suffering and exhausting effort, worn out by pain and psychological torment. Yet, through this struggle, his sense of wisdom emerged, after he nearly lost faith in the laws and order of life. In the end, he finally realized that those who know how to dwell in moments of pain and misery can sense happiness even in sorrow, torment, and suffering.
