By assembling the mosaic image of our own mosaic of “truth” (our own version of the “truth”) from our accumulated knowledge and through comparisons with those of others, we shall not be free and do not get closer to Truth. We have only created a beautiful (or not so beautiful) spiritual mask, and behind it the Ego grins at us and the world created by itself. Frank Wanderer
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We are not free. The world is not free. But, if we are ever going to be free, we have to realize that the world is already free. This idea has been expressed by philosophers for centuries, but it’s still a very powerful concept.

We are not free to create our own version of the truth, because that would mean that we are free to lie. We are not free to make our own choices about what is true, because that would mean that there are no objective truths at all. Having our own mosaic image of truth limits us and limits the world around us.

Our best bet is to take what other people have already said and consider it as our truth, because it is their truth too.

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