The Truth About Action

Wayne Dyer had a good point when he said that getting up early in the morning to write is the best time. There is a period of time between midnight and 6 am where your brain occupies that sweet spot between the previous evening's calamity and the next day's tasks and worries. For me, this is the purely creative time that Brain and Soul get to play. The world at this hour is noiseless. That is if you can ignore the refrigerator compressor kicking on with that familiar hum.  Soul likes to use telepathy and intuition and Brain gets the tough job of translating all of the unspeakable wonders. Shakespeare wrote beautifully and likely came closer than any one person to writing the language of the soul. However, the written word falls short of expressing the highest and lowest of our emotions.  To say I would give my life for my wife and children is an understatement. It took only seconds to write and even less time to read, but that is a significant statement. I can't imagine too many parents who don't feel the same about their families. However, talk is cheap and the truest form of expression is action. Pure energy in motion. Emotion. In other words, you show your emotions by doing something.  Isn't it ironic that artists seem to be able to translate how we feel about a beautiful scene by DOING art. I submit to you a different form of art if you can't paint, sculpt, and draw things. If you want to express to your family a love that is indescribable then you must act. Action is art. It is a language in, and of itself.  I recently read an article about a Texas business owner who is selling his business in order to help a young employee who is battling a brain tumor. Now that is action. It baffles the mind to try and imagine the level of love that this man and his family has for this young lady. Yet, by his actions he has come closer than phonetically possible of expressing love.  I muse about the thousands of songs and books and writings and essays and conversations I've heard yearning for the experience of truth and something real, but when you witness it you'll know it. The experience comes in the form of complete bewilderment to you and be prepared for it to change your outlook on life. It doesn't come around too often.  To quote Ghandi," Be the miracle you wish to see in the world." If you want truth and you want miracle then be the source of truth and miracle. The meaning of truth has been debated for as long as man has existed, but to me it is simple. Truth is the feeling you get when witnessing an act that cannot be expressed in words. Action is truth, not words. The Texas business owner's motivation for his act does not matter. The effect of his act on that little girl is truth. We can do the same for our family, for our community, and in our own lives.