Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Truth Is Not In a Book by Louis Evan Palmer

How can the truth be in a book?  It would mean that the truth is in an abstraction and not in reality. It would mean the truth was tied to a language and not freely available. It would mean that the truth is tied to a time, the time the book was written in. It would mean the truth was tied to a place, the place the truth was written in. It would mean the truth is tied to writing and recording and reading and remembering. It would mean the truth was tied to interpreters and reciters.

How can the truth be in a place? It would mean the truth can be divided and measured and located. Power can be in a place but not truth.

How can truth be in any construct, any thought or word or place or thing? The truth is uncreated, boundless and timeless. Approximations and indications must not be confused with reality itself. At the end of an infinite string of "Not this" and "Not that" lies truth: there, before a single word is spoken, before a single thought or movement or feeling or image or sound - beyond, beyond, beyond beyond.


The Truth Is Not In a Book, Louis Evan Palmer, The Way It Can Be, http://twicb.blogspot.com
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 Copyright 2012 Louis Evan Palmer He lives in Ontario Canada. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications.


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