TRUTH & LIFE....

[Confused Ape]

These are just my personal opinions here. I have no idea if they're really true or not.

Just a simple question or 3 to ponder. What is it that makes us all the same in our journey through life?

We're humans so we're all the same in that respect.

Could it be the quest for Love? For Peace? For Happiness?

...or more importantly, Truth?

Isn't that what we are ALL seeking in life? Doesn't that fact make us all the same?

A lot of people are seeking power, wealth, fame or success. Others, who think they have The Truth, seek to impose it on everyone else.

There is something we do know. Whether by Faith or Knowledge: We still haven't found the real truth in this existence.

How are you defining truth here?

Maybe what frustrates us the most is; We can't get it on our own, and that the truth needs to be revealed to us in some final defining moment of our lives.

Are you talking about God here?

So, in your minds-eye, or heart what is the [holder] of Truth that we seek?

If there is a holder of the Truth you'd think that he, she or it would have revealed the same Truth to people in all the different cultures humans have created since humans appeared on the scene. The only thing I can think of which is common to a lot of different philosophies and religions is -

The Golden Rule

As a concept, the Golden Rule has a history that long predates the term "Golden Rule", or "Golden law", as it was called from the 1670s.[1][6] As a concept of "the ethic of reciprocity," it has its roots in a wide range of world cultures, and is a standard way that different cultures use to resolve conflicts.[1][5] It has a long history, and a great number of prominent religious figures and philosophers have restated its reciprocal, "two-way" nature in various ways (not limited to the above forms).[1]
Rushworth Kidder notes that the Golden Rule can be found in the early contributions of Confucianism (551–479 BC). Kidder notes that this concept's framework appears prominently in many religions, including "Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and the rest of the world's major religions".[7] According to Greg M. Epstein, " 'do unto others' ... is a concept that essentially no religion misses entirely."[8] Simon Blackburn also states that the Golden Rule can be "found in some form in almost every ethical tradition".[9] All versions and forms of the proverbial Golden Rule have one aspect in common: they all demand that people treat others in a manner in which they themselves would like to be treated.

There is no evidence that the Golden Rule was inspired by any deity, though.