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Ultimate truth = transformation. It is the reason that Jesus says the truth will set you free. The truth transforms you by showing you what you truly are already.
This is how we can know that traditional religions are not telling the truth, at least not in a way that people can understand it. No one is being transformed by what they are teaching.
When something has been tried by millions of people for thousands of years without success, an intelligent being would begin to realize that it does not work. It needs to find what it is missing. All the wars that have ever been fought and the ones being fought now and in the future will be fought because people do not know the truth.
No guts no glory: Human beings are familiar with the mind and not familiar with true life. The mind talks to you; God/life does not. The mind makes you feel like you are not alone, but with God/life you are not alone, although it feels like it at first. The world of the mind is small and cozy; the world of God/life is infinite.
People are used to false life, and it will take time to get used to true life. At first, you will be much more comfortable living in the mind than living in life. People feel safe in the familiar and unsafe in the unfamiliar, so you will have to get to know true life a little at a time. It is like getting into hot or cold water. You have to get used to real life before you can get into it all the way. It will happen if you know the truth and really want to know the life. It will happen naturally; it will just take your attention and practice.
Living in the mind may feel natural, but living in an illusion is not living.
Tipping point: As you begin to experience true life, you will like it more. The more you like it, the more you will get in touch with it, and the more you get in touch with it, the more you will like it. Now, you like being in the mind more than you like being in true life. Soon you will like being in true life more, a lot more. That is the tipping point, the point of no return, the point of your transition into a spiritual being.
The way: You just have to do one thing, and that is to learn to recognize what is real (God/life) and what is not real (mind). Then give your life to just what is real. If you do this, the false mind created things will no longer control your life; you will be free. Think about it until you understand the truth completely, and then just do what the truth dictates.
It really is that simple, but most people cannot see the truth now.
from pages 59-60 of "The Present (with religion)" at www.truthcontest.com