Saturday, May 23, 2009

Truth

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said:
"In all unbalanced minds, the classification is idolized, passes for the end, and not for a speedily exhaustible means, so that the walls of the system blend to their eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe; the luminaries of heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built."

"the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as in on every topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE"

If there is intrinsic truth in all objects, it follows that there is a unifying truth behind all. Emerson calls this unifying truth "the ever-blessed ONE." He claims that for a mind to be considered balanced it can draw distinction between the wall of human progress and the wall of universal truth.

I do espouse the idea of individual truth. The question remains if I can draw the distinction called for to be balanced. Can my mind move beyond the boundaries of human progress?

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