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You hear it all the time these days:

“My truth is….”

Or when someone disagrees with another person:

“Well that’s your truth, and my truth is…”

I think we need to reexamine the most basic definition of what the word truth means. Call me idealistic, but I actually do believe that the word “Truth” (or at least the meaning behind the word) is worth defending, revering, and understanding. It is about as close to being sacred or holy as anything else in this world could possibly be; enough so that I believe it is worth being spelled with a capital “T”, just as much as the word “God”.

Thus being said, it is absolutely important for us to understand that the word Truth, by its very definition, requires that it is the same for everyone and everything in order for it to be True. And this is far more important than me just being nitpicky about wording or proper definition.

If you are genuinely seeking to find the Truth, you are seeking for something immutable, something undeniable, and unshakably solid

.You are looking for something that can be relied upon, regardless of whether your mind is playing tricks on you, regardless of whether you have faith in it or not, regardless of yours or anyone else’s beliefs. In other words, you are looking for something that is True, whether ego or self-delusion gets in the way of you being able to perceive it or not.

When we go throwing around a phrase like “my truth”, or “your truth” what are we really saying? We’re saying “I believe this” or “you perceive things to be that way”. Believe and perception are not Truth. Opinions are not

Truth. Do you see that there is a level of arrogance to us deciding to call these things Truth?

Yes we can say that we create our own experience of life; and everyone’s experience of life is completely unique, due to our different beliefs and perceptions that have such a profound and powerful creative effect. Yet that only further proves that these perceptions and experiences we have as individuals, that differ so widely from someone else’s experience and perception, cannot be Truth.

How can something be True for me and not for you? It may appear to be True, it may feel True. But it is not immutably True if it is not universally True.

Let’s say the sun is the Truth. The fact that the sun exists in the sky, and shines is Truth. When the sun is blocked by clouds, we could say that the sun isn’t shining. We could also say that the clouds are blocking the sun.

If we didn’t understand how the sun worked, we might even think that the sun went away, or turned off on days that it was blocked by overcast skies.

• Some people might think that the clouds in the sky have different motives.
• Some may even think that the sun hid behind the clouds on purpose because we didn’t act in a way that the sun wanted us to act.

We could tactfully call one person’s opinion that the sun has dimmed itself “their truth”, and another person’s opinion that the sun has actually shrunk into a smaller sized, less bright ball of light “their truth”. But what is the real Truth?

The sun is shining, whether we can see it clearly or not. That doesn’t change because of the way we experience that sunshine, or the opinions we have about why we can or cannot see it.

Something that is True does not cease to be True because we don’t believe in it. Something that is True can still be True, even if we are not able to comprehend or understand it. Truth is universal, immutable, and True for everyone, whether they understand it or not.

Excerpt from: https://www.guidedmind.com/blog/3-common-spiritual-lies-that-we-all-believe