Do you ever look for the truth in all the wrong places?

Question

Where do you look for the truth of the light?

Many of us allow ourselves to get sidetracked by our preconceived notions about where the truth of the Light is to be found. (Regardless of what you call this truth; God, Jesus, Christ, the Word, Annointing, Enlightenment, Buddha, etc)

We tend to look for it in church, in respectable places, and among respectable people. Yet, we rarely look for it in any place or among anyone that has the slightest odor of disrepute or carries about it a hint of the stench of death.

Is it too much for us to branch out into the highways and byways of life and seek truth in all places and among all people, seeking it where you least expect to find it?
Would you be surprised to discover that the truth of the light is where you don’t expect it to be, and that it isn’t where you expect it to be?

Do you ever look for the truth in all the wrong places?

(Quote:: "A faith that is alive is a faith that is willing to be surprised.")

Answer 1

I used to. I now look within. That is where all the answers are....

But, we are a society of people built by the creedos of other people's ideal life. The here and there truth is but someone we've looked to for answers that they couldn't truely tell us. But, were and are always found in the one treasured place we take for granted: Within ourselves!!!


Your sister,
Ginger

Answer 2

I look in the right places. ... A balance of:
- Solid Evidence (the more, the better).
- Makes sense (except for QM - see 'Source').
- Follows Standards (Scientific Method).
- Consensus of experts (or close).
- Peer review (speaks for itself).
- Relative Simplicity (re Occam's Razor).
- Explains Rather than Obfuscates (Always.)
- Ignores Irrelevancies (superstitions, etc.)

Answer 3

You mean like on Yahoo!Answers? ;-)

Just kidding... to me it's usually found, not necessarily in the disrespectable places and people, but in those people willing to associate themselves with the disrespectable, to meet them where they are, and to just show Love. I don't know if that makes sense? But I think you are right, being open to find Truth wherever it may be is key.

Answer 4

Quite Insightful - Thanks

Sound similar ? somewhere in the Bible did mentions what you said !!

That is why the people "in-the-know" has been laughing at the Commons for thousand of years !!!

Cheers

Answer 5

You mean like looking for it in dirty old tax collectors ,smelly old fishermen, nasty old whores, rotten Romans and stuff like that.

Answer 6

Well, for my own part, I'm a truth is where you find it kind of gal...
(I like the quote....:)

Answer 7

from time to time

Answer 8

no
its in the good book the Bible