My question is, who really wants to know the truth.?

Question

My question is, who really wants to know the truth. Regardless of the answer. And if the answer was hard and you had to change everything about your life would you do it? Can we really put our pride aside?

Answer 1

Yes I still do, regardless of the possible need to change to adapt to the painful truth. I still want to know it for myself.

Answer 2

i m a Muslim and i know The Truth and that is 'Islam'. There is no other Truth left to know of after Islam. And there are many ppl, who when come to know of The Truth 'Islam', they change everything abt themselves accordingly, and there is no matter of pride or shame in it. If u get to know The Truth, and determine u were on the wrong path before, then change ur path immediately, 'coz for those ppl who convert ALLAH (GOD) erase all their previous sins, as though as they Never happened.

It is like, if some stranger in new york, had to take a train to manhattan, and by mistake, he got on the train to brooklyn, then if he is a wise man, he will get off at the very next station and take the train to manhattan from there, but if he is Not so a wise man, he will feel embarassed and will continue to ride till brooklyn and take the train from there, wasting much precious time that will never come. Peace to All.

Answer 3

I don't believe that anyone would want to know the total truth about everything no matter what they say. For example would you really want to know if everyone thought you were ugly? What if you found out that the religion you believed in all your life was based on a scam? The total truth would ruin the way you look at life.

Answer 4

I think it's possible to do that. However, I'm not sure that 'seeking truth' is the way to go about it, because if we think we have found the *whole* truth (as if we could understand the *whole* truth with our limited human understanding), that would border on blasphemy.

It is much better when it simply comes to you, as it were by chance. Then, for example, if you were once a raving atheist, the kind who spit on the steps of churches out of hatred for the very notion of God, one day you simply become aware someday that God exists, and you are attracted to His Person.

You feel no condemnation for your former way of life. You barely even remember it anymore. And yes, you make changes in your life. You make a habit of worshiping God - by yourself and with others. Perhaps there is some 'official' ceremony of adopting that faith, and your family chooses to be absent, because it was 'the wrong faith'.

Bye-bye big party with all the family and friends, hello to being called intellectually defective at your own dinner table by your own family. Hello to being forced to choose between taking support from your parents so you can study, and giving charitably according to your beliefs.

Or maybe you just get creative? But even then, you know there are certain things that you should not talk about with your family, not only because there are certain things which should be kept between you and God, but also because there'd be the risk of being disowned.

Or maybe they wouldn't agree about that, and your family would just plain break up? So whatever you do, it's scary. But you bear up with all this, because you've found something better than their approval and support.

Then maybe before, you had a habit of lying to your family about certain things, and one day it occurs to you that there's nothing they can do to you which would make it worthwhile to keep lying. So next time you catch yourself doing it, you take it back. And again, you feel no condemnation for your former way of life - it's just a relief to leave it behind.

I'm always mystified by people who think that spiritual conversion has to be an act of violence. Maybe it even does involve a death of some kind, a death of the 'old self'. But some people die peacefully in their sleep - and then there's a whole new life to be lived after that...

Answer 5

Most people don't want the truth. They'd rather wear blinders & believe lies than face anything that's painful to see. Honesty isn't the best policy in most instances, unless you want to alienate people. Personally though, I'd rather know the truth, however terrible, than to believe a lie. But then what is truth anyway? Are you ever really sure of anything?

Answer 6

Yes, a person who has experientially seen that nothing else works, is prepared to do anything to seek. That is exactly the deeper sense of "surrender" ( and not kneeling down to some dictator as a slave)!
Even this has been subtly indicated by an ancient Master, when he began a renowned book ( which has stood the test of time),
in a strange manner, saying
" and now Yoga " , meaning ' having seen everything else, now come to this' !

Answer 7

I did wanted before.
have found it in new religion, so I have converted. It is cost me a lot- relationship with my family, friends, colleagues.. But I have accepted all changes in my life because I know i have got the knowlege about truth

Answer 8

Assuming I'm incorrect (and therefore already do know the truth), I would prefer to know the truth than to continue living a lie.

Answer 9

"If you abide in my word then you are truly disciples of mine; and you shall know the true, and the truth shall set you free." Boy just about everything comes down to pride doesn't it. To humble ourselves, yes it's tough but it can be done through Jesus.

Answer 10

people who can handle it? then again if you think about it one way or another you have to face the truth even if it isn't what you wanted to hear. it's the only way to be at peace with yourself/the rest of the world---i mean rather than living a lie right? :)