truth vs. honesty

i am in pursuit of truth. i always have been. and by truth i mean the capital T kind of Truth. the kind that resonates. the kind that you can feel spilling across the horizon, clean like the morning sun.

yes, Truth illuminates, usually catching me in the darkest moments, so often telling me things i'd rather not hear but somehow already know. i'm not sure how, but i have a knack for feeling it out there even before it begins its journey toward the curve of the earth, past the horizon and across the three miles of space and time to become a thought, an idea, or someone else's words that touch me. change me.

Truth always changes.

but even in the worst moments, the light of the revelation, no matter how harsh it falls, no matter how hard a reality it reveals, the light is comforting. it softens any blow like the welcome gaze of an old friend. but even if that weren't so, i have long known that Truth is much preferred to the alternative of darkness, confusion, and deception.

yes, i'm done with the rest. bring Truth on. bring it on.

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on the same topic, but said differently, this is a quote from the tobolowsky files. it follows a story about how stephen was bet by a friend that he couldn't hit his friend even if they were both standing on a piece of newspaper laid out on the floor, one on each side of the paper. stephen refused to take the bet and sure enough, the friend laid the newspaper out in a doorway, shut the door, and then proceeded to prove that stephen would not have been able to touch him and would have lost the bet.

then he said to stephen:

it's a lesson for you...in the difference between honesty and truth. most people live their lives and they think it's the same thing, but they're not. people can use honesty to tell lies...but honesty never tells the whole story. it only tells part of the story, the part you want to be heard, the part where you're right, but the truth...not only changes the way you see the situation you're in, but it changes the way you see the world from that point on. you can use honesty to bludgeon...to hit people over the head, but you can never go back from truth.

thank you, stephen. i am done with the rest. bring Truth on. bring it on.