To see the truth about anything is vastly different from knowing Truth, itself. Yet the two are often confused. What we generally do is to see a glimpse of it, a photographic flash, like a quick and fleeting scene in a moving picture. But when that bird’s-eye view for one fleeting instant brings into manifestation a portion of our hopes and desires, what will a positive knowing do? The thought makes one catch his breath because he realizes that it will enable him to do those glorious things Christ promised.

To know, means to have a clear perception and to be certain of a thing as objectively true. If you have a clear perspective of and see all sides of a thing or problem, so that you are not concerned about it any more, you know it and let the idea drop then and there. Then knowing the truth about your problems you just naturally act, think, and live according to that knowledge. When you have attained this viewpoint you have fulfilled the first mandate of the decree, “Ye shall know the truth.”

The error is in continuing to work on it. Trying constantly to use truth without really knowing it, is like an aviator learning to fly, by forever staying on the ground, shifting gears, and going over the rules and rudiments he already knows by heart. He has to take off and trust to what he knows, and only then does his knowledge work through him.

You do not really use truth, you just let go of your human concern about it and allow truth to use you; and when you have done that you are fulfilling the second—and unwritten—mandate of the decree; which is, do nothing, and the truth shall make you free.

AH, MY CHILD, if you will spend but one-tenth of the time and energy you have wasted in seeking without among the husks of human knowledge and human teachings—in earnest, determined efforts directed within to find Me;

If you will devote but one hour each day thus to Me alone, imagining and practicing the Presence of Me within you;

I here promise you that you will not only soon, very soon, find Me; but I will be to you an exhaustless fount of such Wisdom, Strength and Help, as your human mind now cannot possibly conceive. —The Impersonal Life.