Truth is not True at All : Seeing beyond Spirituality

We say we want the truth, but do we? When we ask someone to tell us the truth, we are only hearing their version—what they’ve seen, how they’ve felt, the way they’ve processed reality through their own mind. And yet, we argue over it, as if truth were something solid, something universal. But it’s not. It never has been.

The Illusion of Reality

Think about a conversation—any conversation. Two people sit across from each other, talking, listening, but are they really hearing the same thing? No two people see the world the same way. One sees chaos where the other sees opportunity. One hears criticism where another hears care. Every exchange is a reflection of the speaker’s mind, their experiences, their past. So are we ever really connecting? Or are we just syncing up with someone’s personal brand of imagination?

We don’t find people we understand—we find people whose illusions match ours. Relationships, friendships, even fleeting connections happen not because we’ve discovered some grand, shared truth, but because, for a moment, our individual versions of reality happen to overlap. But what happens when they don’t? Do we fight, trying to bend each other’s perspectives to match our own? Do we call them wrong, simply because their truth isn’t ours?

The Science of Perception

Even physics tells us that reality is not as fixed as we believe. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity shows that time and space are not absolute; they stretch and contract depending on speed and gravity. What is a second for one person might be different for another. If even time—a fundamental experience—is relative, how can truth be absolute?

Then there’s Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that we can never know both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time. The very act of observing something changes it. If reality itself shifts based on how we look at it, then what we call “truth” is nothing more than perspective.

The Fiction of Right and Wrong

We cling to ideas of right and wrong as if they are carved into the universe, but they aren’t. They are social constructs, shaped by time, history, and culture. In one era, something is law; in another, it is laughable. Galileo was a heretic before he became a genius. The ground beneath our feet isn’t as stable as we think.

We grow up thinking truth is an anchor, something to hold onto, but it’s not—it’s fluid. The more we insist that our truth is the truth, the more we close ourselves off from seeing the world as it truly is: unpredictable, personal, and ever-changing.

The Truth in Letting Go

If truth is nothing more than perception, then why do we fight over it? Why do we waste time trying to prove someone else’s reality wrong? What if we could just… let it be? What if, instead of demanding agreement, we embraced the fact that no two people will ever see life exactly the same way?

The real truth isn’t in proving ourselves right. It isn’t in making others believe what we believe. It’s in acceptance. Accepting that each person is shaped by their past, their pain, their joy, their own mental universe. We don’t have to agree. We don’t have to fight. We just have to allow people to be who they are—just as we hope to be allowed to be who we are. And maybe, just maybe, that’s the closest thing to truth we’ll ever get.