
Why Interpretation Shapes Your Awakening
Reality isn’t hiding. What conceals it is the web of interpretations spun by the mind: assumptions, projections, and inherited beliefs. Yet, paradoxically, it is through interpretation that one begins to peel away those very veils. Every interpretation is a mirror. The question is: what is it reflecting?
Interpretation matters because it reveals where you are on the developmental spiral. Crude, reactive interpretations reflect lower rungs of psychological growth; often rooted in fear, blame, or a need for certainty. As awareness matures, interpretations become more nuanced, inclusive, and paradox-tolerant. They start to echo the underlying unity of things, rather than just categorize them.
Interpretation is not merely a mental activity. It is a soul signal. The more refined it becomes, the closer it gets to silence, the point where no interpretation is needed. That is the paradox. The highest interpretation doesn’t claim to know; it bows. It listens. It dissolves.
Yet such dissolution is not a regression into vagueness. It is the clarity that comes when all interpretations have done their job and exhausted their usefulness. Then what remains is the directness of being—your true nature—not as a conclusion, but as the very absence of conclusion.
This is why interpretation is not to be dismissed but refined. It is a bridge. And the more accurate your interpretation of the world, the closer you walk toward the unconditioned—what no interpretation can contain, but all of them secretly point toward.
What you interpret is what you live. Misinterpret life, and you suffer. Align with it, and you awaken. Accuracy in perception is not about being “right”; it is about being real. Every step you take toward clearer interpretation is a step toward the Real that has no opposite.
Morgan O. Smith
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