The Grasshopper stopped by yesterday with this profound, tasty treat: “There aren’t new truths, just new discoveries.”

The truth is always the truth; it doesn’t morph when circumstances change. Truth is the underlying reality that no situation on the surface can alter.

The problem as I see it is that we mistakenly label many things as the truth and then we discover something new that counteracts that truth, and we call it a new truth. Chances are that neither of them are true, just discoveries along the way.

Just look at the heady topic of physics. There’s Newtonian Physics and then there is Quantum Physics. Newtonian Physics was the gospel truth until the discovery of Quantum Theory, and then it became the prevailing truth.

The truth is the foundation on which discoveries are made. Resultant discoveries point in the direction of truth but never really pinpoint its location.

Truth cannot be defined nor located, but it exists everywhere.

Our truth is not “the truth,” just a discovery we hang onto until a new “truth” takes its place.

I believe The Grasshopper is reminding us that our relative truths change with new discoveries and are really not the truth at all. The reminder is simply this: Our way is not the only way.

You may have discovered a preferred way of operating that may or may not be working for you, but either way, it’s not the truth. When you label it as such, you are apt to resist any new information that could lead you to a new discovery.

Also, labeling your preferred way of thinking, doing and believing as the truth, makes you a pain in the ass. And that’s the truth . . . or as close to it as I can come.

All the best,

John

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