Armanislan Armanislam

A pendulum centered on a map
In a world filled with increasingly contentious claims about what is true and what is not, how is one to know the actual truth of anything? And why is knowing the truth important anyway? Here Gail Fillion writes about the essentiality of truth—why to seek it, what can stand in the way of seeing it, and how to begin to discover it for oneself.



These days we often hear and perhaps use terms such as “my truth” or “your truth”—and in fact each of us does view the world through the filters of our own unique experiences. Even people growing up in the same family will sometimes have vastly differing perspectives and remembrances of the same shared circumstances. This factor can be even more magnified for those born into diverse cultures, religions, political ideologies, imposed class systems, economies, etc. The more varied the experience, the greater the gap in perceived truths there may be.


We are, each of us, greatly influenced by the circumstances and