Seeking Truth

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't know if truth exists. I mean, it seems like a moving target ephemerally defined by what it means at the moment it happens. I'm not talking about telling the truth, although I'll hold that thought as a manifestation of what I am about to iterate.

Seeking for the truth within oneself and in anything takes critical thinking which wiki defines below:

Critical thinking gives due consideration to the evidence, the context of judgment, the relevant criteria for making the judgment well, the applicable methods or techniques for forming the judgment, and the applicable theoretical constructs for understanding the problem and the question at hand. Critical thinking employs not only logic but broad intellectual criteria such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, significance and fairness.

Given this definition, in order to identify the truth within oneself in regards to sense of purpose, relationships, career choices and spiritual pathways one must always be critical. This requires us to always ascertain within ourselves, if what we manifest matches the truth that is critically defined in relation to our context. Hence the moving target.

For example, with the moving flow of time comes a moving flow of our own vicissitudes. We can choose to narrow truth and define it within the narrow context of what we feel at a given moment, in other words ephemerally defining it. But if we were critical we can identify it as hedonistic, selfish, egotistic, etc. We can even go insofar as acting on this redefined truth to align everything else (relationships, purpose, creativity) according to what we perceive as "True".

However, we know this truth is not true if it was not thought of in critical terms. So if we placed it within how we felt at that moment, when that context passes, we will need to redefine truth....because we never truly found it to begin with, only for the moment for which it satisfied. I argue that "true" truth is classic and doesn't necessarily change when imbued with our values, ie: killing, lying, cheating, stealing should never be justified in our interpersonal relationships or in society.

Being critical about who, what and where we are will imbue us with truth. The only way we can know if we found this truth, is in knowing that the truth we have defined for ourselves enables us to self actualize so that we may be truly at peace with our actions. This I think, will become self evident when we stop lying to ourselves and to others. When we know truth, we will know peace individualistically so that we can work for peace altruistically.