rumitoid wrote:
Truth speaks most clearly in the silence of self, and anything else is the gibberish of vanity.
The only acid test for Truth is love in action, the rest is vanity.
It is popular and hailed as enlightened to say, "Create your own reality, meaning, and purpose: be whatever you want to be." This may be true but I see it differently. Who we are, as we are in essence, is far, far greater thatn anything we could ever make of ourselves of even dream to be. Why? Imago dei.
For me, there is far more truth in one loving touch than in all the holy books ever written.
Reality is purely of the moment, making truth too swift to be caught and yet ever still. We do not hold and express truth; we are expressions of truth, the relational wave breaking this instant; it has a total ambiance that is just beyond words, just beyond reason, and just beyond belief.
Truth is always brand spanking new, if it were not, we could not change and improve, there would be no maturing. So it is that each fresh nuance of truth bears a different species of understanding.
Change and improvement are always a mystery.
Truth cannot be Dorothy''s ruby slippers or the Holy Grail or the Golden Fleece without the adventure.
Certainty is the weakest defense of truth, for it make it an object and not a living process. Wonder and curiosity make a far better defense, for they are welcoming to truth in all its many disguises and allow it to explain itself.
Error always holds a precious secret of truth, so religion needs to be envious of our imperfection, for only there will the whole nature of Truth become clear. We do not plan for humiliations, failures, and losses, yet these can be the awful mercies of truth, revealing far more about what is for our ultimate well-being than living a perfect and just life. Truth is alchemy, perpetually turning lead into gold and the reverse.
Truth is what expresses the exact nature of our existence. As God is love and we are made in his image, love is the essence of who we are. Ergo, Love is the language of Truth. As such, every era, place, and heart has the same interpretation of Truth, if it remains true to character. If you do not Love, you can not help but misinterpret the nature of your existence. Besides that, if you do not love..."you have nothing,,,you are nothing".
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Hell! Rumi: I don't love anyone and I am truthful, honest and trustworthy. I know what truth is as I see it. Truth is to me what it may not be to anyone else. A person who is in a delusional state see his delusions as truth but, to everyone else his truth is delusional. What you have posted is a bunch of mumbo jumbo. I hate to tell ya. I have studied a lot of philosophy and philosophers ramble on and on with mombo jumbo until the conclude what a concept, word, ect is. Sometimes a few words will adequately explain something.