Fingertip - when I'm barely touching a huge theme, openning questions
Like many of us I love quotes.
When in doubt, we look at quotes and soon we find the answer.
Inspirational quotes, famous sentences from famous people, experianced people which shared their knowledge and experience with everyone who is willing to embrace their wisdom and get inspired. Sometimes we accept them as a solid truth.
Even if we inadvertently encounter them, we usually read them. We find a problematic spot in our mind and we get the answer or a confirmation on the way.
They are so encouraging, they support our way of thinking. With the right quotes we feel the inspiration, motivation and we confirm ourselves ... to ourselves.
We may see them as a moral boosters. Or are they just a paradigm? Are they realy representing the truth or just misleading us?
Of course, each quotation does not always correspond to us. I found many interesting, even contradictory quotes.
Now a game:
Play around with your eyes. Read the first one that draws your attention, then the second, maybe somewhere lower down the page. Than come back and read first set of six of them, one after another, like a story.
If I put them together one by one they are all true, but look how your mind can be slowly shifted from one side to another.
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What to think, what to do, be unselfish, work for others, work for yourself, for your dreams, is that state selfish bad or confident good? As much as we want to simplify things, more quotes we read, more confused we become. Or?
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How about this one:
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And here is where a real questioning beggins.
Is one quote enough to motivate us? If we read it every day, can we embrace it completely after a while? Are we choosing the 'right' quote to motivate us or just the soothing one, where we feel better for a while but still nothing changes? Do we need to make a "story" to lead us to another state of mind?
My answer to the title question?
Truth has many faces. As many as people in the world. At least.
Can any random universal inspirational quote works as a solid truth for us? Aren't they ment to do that?
It depends on which side of the window we are and what are we willing to do with that.
Are we ok with a reflection in a window glass?
Do we wish to go to the other side to find ourselves where we feel we belong?
If we want to develop personaly and while reading the inspirational quote we hit 'the moment' do we take immediate action or do we let the moment pass?
This is where another questioning begins or a decision appears.
Are you using quotes? Are they doing their job? How do you process a quote that could be important for the improvement of your life? Do you find them truthfull or you take them just as a nice thought. Are they important at all? You think they are misleading us?
If you've touched it with your fingertip.. what do you feel? What do you think?