In John 8:32, we read that “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” It is important to recognize when reading this Biblical passage that there is “the truth,” and this scripture does not state that you are made free by “my truth” or “your truth,” but instead the truth, as represented in this saying, is the definitive truth. Regrettably, we live in a day and age, in which truth has been bastardized into a belief that your truth or my truth or anybody’s truth, is the truth, when it would be more appropriate to state that there is, in actuality, only one Truth, and all that which is not under that Truth, is not therefore the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but rather is something less than, or might not even be true, at all.
The whole point of knowing the truth, is that in that knowing, we become One with that which actuated our existence in the first place, which should be the abiding objective of all that have a conscience, for until that time that we recognize our eternal place and thereby live to that ideal, then we are not free but rather we are stuck within a construct in which our delusion or stubbornness precludes us from knowing that which will provide us with everything that we need in order to become whole.
This signifies that there is no greater quest than the quest to know who that we really are, and in that knowing, to find the sanctuary that will provide us with eternal peace, if only, we would release our bondage to that which appears so real to us, to thereby break through to what we are supposed to be, which is thereby fully attuned to our true essence.
We live within a world in which so many people believe in the reality of what they see and feel, and are unable, or unwilling, or uninterested in pursuing that which will provide them with the key to true happiness and contentment. Indeed, this world is a proving ground, meant to successfully provide us the release from the dross that precludes us from envisioning correctly who we are, and those that cannot or will not lift up their eyes to see the light that is ever present have exchanged liberation for imprisonment.
Our Creator has gifted us with free will, which permits us to do whatever that we so desire to do, or at least attempt to do, which thus presents us with the duality of good and evil, of which, the choice of what we do at any given time, lays within our dominion. Those then that turn their back on good are the same who have turned their back upon truth, which does not make them free, though their ego in that moment might make them to believe they are free. In reality, their ego entraps them into the belief that their free choice is somehow the same as being free, when, in actuality, only those who know the Truth are free, because these are the very same that have risen above the errors of human consciousness to embrace liberating enlightenment.