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Looking through our own lenses in life, we see only our perspective.  We filter our experiences through our own biases and conceptions of the world.  This makes it easy to believe that we have the right way, the only way, the true way.  We own the truth.  We fear those whose lenses are different from ours.  We put up barriers to keep their false views from diminishing our truth.  But truth is made up of all human experience.  You cannot contain the full truth until you can see through the lens of the other.  Claiming to own the full truth in your own experience is like taking a tiny grain of sand and proclaiming it to be the whole beach.  A beach is made up of tiny grains of sand.  It needs each one to make it what it is.  Likewise, truth is made up of all human experience.  Each experience makes truth what it is.  Thus truth belongs to all of us.  No one person can own it any more than one grain of sand can be a beach. 

Seeking for truth is much more painful than owning truth.  I can see just fine though my own lenses.  They are comfortable to me.  But trying to see through someone else lenses is confusing, and painful.  Everything is blurry at first.  The more you look, the harder your head will hurt.  Sometimes you have to take the lenses off for a while and rest your eyes before you can look again.  Some life experiences may be so different from your own, that you will never be able to see clearly through those lenses.  But if we want to progress and gain more truth and knowledge in life, it can only be done by trying to see through the lenses of others.  The truth of the human race is the whole of each human experience.  You can’t separate the individual from the whole.  With this blog we hope to create a safe environment in the blogosphere where people can share their experiences, express their thoughts, and help to broaden our understanding of truth in the human experience.  We hope to break down barriers to the other by examining grains of sand in a lens.