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.
