Truth.

I think that we are faced with two problems... We work too much in our mind and... we have forgotten how simple  truth can be, to feel, and to achieve.

Ah dear reader... le auteur... he has the answer. I am sorry to disappoint you but no. Like anything idealism is about truth... a single truth. Universal, idealistic and stoic. My truth... my answer will unfortunately be mostly unlike yours. It is your own journey that defines your truth. Ah! but who cares... universal truths are not useful... to us.. in our individual lives, are they? 

Well of course the answer is yes, they are. It is by having a desire to understand universal truth that we develop our perception of, and our own unique truth. It is our personal interpretation of the universal truth that matters. Many people feel that because they are unable to obtain an understanding and grasp the ultimate definition of truth or of an ideal, that it is unreachable, and therefore useless. Worse, some individuals persist in taking their own truth and forcing it on those they perceive to be unenlightened, as if it IS the universal truth. Many a war has been fought over this form of human error.

The understanding we need to gain is that universal truths persisted before us, and will persist long after we are gone... They are timeless, they are not affected by our interpretation, they are not affected by our attempts to define them. We shall pass, truth will persist.

Let me illustrate..  If I was to be described as an honest man, is this true, is it a truth? No. Honesty is a truth. it is not negotiable. In the existence of a lie, honestly ceases to exist. So how given that all humans lie can I be described as an honest man. It is our personal truths, our acceptance of limitations to the universal truth, that allow this to be so. We collectively agree and accept that a certain degree of dishonesty is acceptable in a human being, that it is only aberrations to our collective agreement, that we describe as dishonesty. 

It would be more accurate to describe me as "his level of dishonesty is not so extreme as to make me consider him a dishonest man he is therefore by agreement an 'honest man' " even though we know that not to be true, or truth.

It is VERY useful to accept that each of us possesses an interpretation of what is a common truth. Our human condition is rendered far easier by this understanding. Once we accept that everyone has, by nature, their own individual interpretation of what we all consider to be common truths, and by it being their nature, also their right. We suddenly understand that arguments over the interpretation of truth, are ultimately doomed. We each will interpret truth based on our desire, our discipline, our experience, and even our genetic makeup. 

There is nothing to be done about it except accept that the personal search for truth is non negotiable, it is each person's right, in fact it is each person's obligation.