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Question

What do you think of this quote? I read it and it struck a cord with me...

"Truth is usually one step beyond one's vision and two steps beyond one's comfort."

Answer 1

Most of the hard things that I have come to believe are true, I first heard them, didn't quite understand them, and entered into the process of seeking out an understanding of that truth. That is, I would hear something, and just barely be able to touch it, but I knew that there was something in it worth touching (cf. "one step beyond one's vision").

But as far as its being outside my comfort zone...that hasn't always been the case for me. Then again--despite my numerous and previously longstanding affiliations with things that weren't true--I was and am fairly relentless in pursuit of what is true. So if I find something that is true, and it doesn't "jive" with whatever I happen to be doing or predominantly thinking at the time, it becomes pretty easy for me to just say, "Well, I was wrong," change my thought or behavior patterns, and move toward the truth in idea and action. I may be one of the rarer birds in this respect. At least my experience with other people has been that the "slow train coming" is much slower for many of them. And that's cool and all--but I tend to want to embrace the truth once I find it. I care very little with defending what is false. In other words, it has become quite simple for me to give up the ghost of whatever misconception I was operating under--simply because I have come to love Truth more than myself.

And I think that this last point is the key.

Answer 2

It's not a bad way of saying we all live by our own myths. Life is more than any one of us can grasp, so we each hang onto a piece, usually for dear life. To be truly understanding, we need to acknowledge that what we "know" to be "true" is a necessary compromise, and that we occasionally need to look outside our compact little worlds to reorient ourselves. Why? Because complacency usually means someone else is suffering. The horizon is not the end of the world but a veil before the rest of the world. With discomfort comes wisdom. And most people are afraid of growing pains.

Compare the parable of the blind men and the elephant, or the idiom, "walk a mile in another's shoes".

Answer 3

I feel it. It's kind of like when people say the truth hurts. i have found in my honesty that people really don't want to hear the truth. Either they are "looking" for the truth and they're in the middle of it or they know the truth and refuse to accept it. Kinda like some of the things that got banned from the bible.

Answer 4

Col 2:8 Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ;

John 17:3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ. 17 Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth.

We all can find truth, if we look in the right place.

Answer 5

Agree. But as you have pointed out the word "usually" implies there are cases where the quote can be wrong.

Answer 6

well most of the time truth hurts, and some people can deal with the truth....but its best to be honest

Answer 7

I'd say it was said/written by someone who had no interest in finding out the truth.

Answer 8

What do I think? Honestly, I think it's cheesy. Just another cutesy catchphrase.

Answer 9

I like it. Can you include who said it?