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What is truth?

What is truth?

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Truth
June 28, 1979

Q: Is there a difference between reality and truth?

All the things that thought has put together - literature, poetry, painting, illusions, gods and symbols - that is reality for us. But nature is not created by thought.

Can the mind, the network of all the senses apprehend, see and observe truth?

Psychological time is the invention of thought, which we use as a means of achieving enlightenment. Is such time an illusion? Is truth measurable by words? Truth is timeless, thought is of time, and the two cannot run together.

Without love, without compassion, truth cannot be. I cannot go to truth, I cannot see truth. Truth can only exist when the self is not.