Truth is not the same for one man as it is for another. "Truth", therefore, is a relative term not an absolute. While we all endeavour to live by whatever truths we hold sacred, expressions of them may occur in the most unexpected of places.
For some people, the expression of their complete truth is found in the words of the Bible or the Quran, in the words of a holy man or prophet. They'll have no doubt or reservation about the words that fulfil them. Their life is defined, enriched and sustained with the truth that they feel.
For others, "truth" is a more elusive concept. Some people may spend their entire lives searching for an expression of the truth they feel inside, which glides, tantalisingly, constantly, out of reach. Sometimes a song reaches near to it, in tone or in words. Sometimes the metre of a poet, long dead, or maybe surging with the vigour of life. And sometimes, just sometimes, the medium of television brushes a finger over the truth...
"Chance meeting your perfect other, your perfect opposite - your protector and endangerer. Chance embarking with this other on the greatest of journeys - a search for truths fugitive and imponderable. If one day this chance may befall you, my son, do not fail or falter to seize it. The truths are out there. And if one day you should behold a miracle, as I have in you, you will learn the truth is not found in science, or on some unseen plane, but by looking into your own heart. And in that moment you will be blessed - and stricken. For the truest truths, are what hold us together, or keep us painfully, desperately apart." - Dana Scully
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