Truth as Harmony

Truth is often seen as something out there. Something to be discovered. It is found when we dig up dinosaur fossils and study their bones. It is found when we bring in the CSI unit and find out who commited the crime. Truth is a one object. Some have it closer to correct and some are further away, but ultimately we are still trying to find it.

This perspective is incomplete. No one will ever have the capacity to know they know truth so in that sense we will never know. There are questions impossible to answer, definitions impossible to find. Even if one truth exists, it forever has and forever will escape the brain's capacity to hold on. Try and explain to me why a certain song has a certain impact on a person. You will never succeed. What you can say may be perfectly rational, yet will be incomplete in understanding. What you say may sound very sensible, yet it is still something of a guess. This holds to be the case with music, love, relationships, purpose, quality, excellence, and on and on.

Here is where I'm going. Truth is made through it's resonance with your understanding of the world. A person's understanding is found inside and outside of words. There are many things you understand that you have never said out loud, or never could say out loud, but they make up your conception nonetheless. Therefore, truth at its furthest reaches is found in how it sounds.

If I were to say that killing people when they cut you off in line at the movies is always best, you can feel the dissonance. As if I just played a C major chord and then the cat jumped on the piano and laid down. You don't need to tell me why that sucks, if I can't figure it out you are going to terminate our facebook friendship and move away. Similarly, if someone played a concert by throwing their cat on the piano, you would likely not even stay around to hear the whole first song.

But on the positive side of this, truth is found through this means. Someone says something, and you resonate with it such that you want to hear more. It's not that you checked and this guy has an IQ of 190 and has been studying what he speaks of four 60 years, it is that the way he spoke of what he was talking felt good to you in hearing it. You have an understanding, and this understanding resonates with what he just said. Oftentimes, this is enough reason for someone to buy the guy's book, vote him into office, or listen to his talk radio show every day.

Now, that is my point. One more application I want to point out is how much I am discovering this with myself in regards to religion. I am long disinterested in finding out which text or religious building contains "the truth." I'm not going to the middle east to try and see if their is evidence of Jesus being in town x catching fish with man of large sandal size. But, in reading the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, the Qu'ran, and talking to people with religious beliefs, I find my truths in their language. Not that anyone of them are right, but that in many cases their understanding helps me see mine. Because I feel such a resonance with some things and such a dissonance with others, I am able to clarify and grow my truth through their words.

Truth plays the mind like the piano plays the ears. Where you are coming from, plus what is coming to you, mixes to create what is true in that moment. Perhaps, next year it will be different, but truth comes in that exchange of energies and histories of the mind and the world. It is not so high up in the sky or dug up under ground as we may think. It's inside you, growing every day.