Comments on: Truth http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/ Reflections on Mysticism and the East Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Monakhos » Blog Archive » “Living As Best You Can” http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-116 Monakhos » Blog Archive » “Living As Best You Can” Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:35:37 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-116 [...] It’s easy to give “Sunday school” answers to these questions, and if I cared for them at all, I wouldn’t be asking them. After years in Christian school and Sunday school and church, I know every single one of them, and not one of them interests me anymore. I wrote nearly two months ago on truth and since then my thoughts on the topic haven’t changed much. Truth is individual. No universal truth is true for all people. What is good for one person, might be bad for another. What might furthur one person may detriment another. Universality is nonexistent. Nonexistence is universal. [...] […] It’s easy to give “Sunday school” answers to these questions, and if I cared for them at all, I wouldn’t be asking them. After years in Christian school and Sunday school and church, I know every single one of them, and not one of them interests me anymore. I wrote nearly two months ago on truth and since then my thoughts on the topic haven’t changed much. Truth is individual. No universal truth is true for all people. What is good for one person, might be bad for another. What might furthur one person may detriment another. Universality is nonexistent. Nonexistence is universal. […]

]]> By: Zach http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-58 Zach Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:23:39 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-58 The reference point is in the middle. I know that sounds a little cliché, but I have found thus far that the answer to almost every question regarding the balance between two extremes is the middle way. The reference point is in the middle. I know that sounds a little cliché, but I have found thus far that the answer to almost every question regarding the balance between two extremes is the middle way.

]]> By: anonymous julie http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-57 anonymous julie Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:05:10 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-57 There is truth. Is there a reference point? There is truth.

Is there a reference point?

]]> By: MysticSaint http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-56 MysticSaint Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:28:26 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/20/truth/#comment-56 i have a poem for u from Kahlil Jibran. u will know what u meant more i hope when u just read it. http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/2006/06/on-self-knowledge.html highlight this section, Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the Soul." Say rather, "I have met the Soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. i have a poem for u from Kahlil Jibran. u will know what u meant more i hope when u just read it.

http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/2006/06/on-self-knowledge.html

highlight this section,

Say not, “I have found the truth,”
but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Say not, “I have found the path of the Soul.”
Say rather, “I have met the Soul walking upon my path.”

For the soul walks upon all paths.

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