“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”
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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.