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What is the truth?  Do you really know?  If so, then how?  The truth is beyond me most of the time.  I trust half of what I hear and I trust about ten percent of what I read.

I found this in a book called “365 Tao Daily Meditations” by Deng Ming-Dao:

Truth

“There are three levels of truth:

Experience, reasoning, and knowing.

All other assertions should be rejected.”

That makes perfect sense to me.  If I experience it, then it is true.  If I have enough information to reason that something is true, then I believe it to be true.  Finally, there are things I just know are true that have no evidence or reasoning. For example a higher power.  I know in my heart and soul that there is a higher power (Self, God, Buddha, or whatever you want to call it).  I just know it; it is true.

Truth is a bitch to come to grips with and it often times hurts.  But I would take the truth over a lie any day of the week.