Monday, August 30, 2010

On the nature of truth:


To know the truth is to deny all other possibilities. To 'know' is to close your mind. To ‘seek’ is to open it. Only an open mind that has considered many opposing views can hope to see the truth in any of them.

It is therefore not the ‘truth’ that matters. It is the search for it. If someone has given you your truths then you have been misled because truth cannot be given. Only when in search of truth do you gain the wisdom to recognize it.

It is far easier to close an open mind than it is to open a closed one. You should be cautious when you believe you know the truth. For in so knowing, you have closed your mind to it.

This in essence denies the existence of any pure truth and demands that truth be what it inherently is; relative, subjective, ethereal. Your truth is not my truth. Summarily, truth is not an end unto itself but exists only as path to wisdom. Only when you let go of the arrogance of knowledge and embrace the humility of ignorance can you begin to understand this.

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