The Simple Truth - Sigvaldi Hjálmarsson

Truth cannot be put in words. This is one of the greatest misunderstanding in human life. It cannot be put in words, any more than the wind can be caught in a net. Truth is only in life. Truth cannot be told, one can't even speak truthfully. When we say that we are telling the truth, we are speaking as little lie as can be done with words. The truth is also not of the nature that it can be discovered once and for all. It's not possible to discover the truth at eight in the morning, for that day and ever after. It has to remain a steady ongoing discovery, a continuos experience, not only that day, but the coming days and every days to come. You have to live it, to be it, to have clear awareness of it moment by moment, so that there is never a break. It is not complicated but always simple, usually, or perhaps always, too simple for us to notice, who are so accustomed to sophisticated thinking. It is not a doctrine, it is an ever ongoing discovery. Or as the Nobel price winner Halldor Laxness said better than anyone else that I know, about the truth, many years ago in a book; "You won't find truth in books, not even in good books, but only in people with a righteous heart."

 

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