People Are Prone to Making Mistakes

549.02Question: When you say something, do you generally say it from the point of view of truth?

Answer: Relatively concerning the person who receives it and no more than that. There is nothing absolute in our world nor in attainment of the upper world. But there it is clear.

Question: Let’s say you explain something to the students, and with regard to one this is the truth, but with regard to the other two, in their perception, this is nonsense. Where is the common ground for these three people?

Answer: The common ground is that each of them understands that what the other feels is true with regard to him, but maybe not with regard to me.

Comment: There are people who take it as a truth that they can cure all diseases by vegetarianism, others by raw food, and others by yoga. And this does not change at all throughout life.

My Response: It does not change the same way it does in animals. The more often a person’s opinions change, the better because it means that he himself changes, which means that he is human. The one who does not change is an animal, a petrified frozen individual.

When he has many opinions and is constantly in doubt, does not know with what to agree and with what not to agree, and is in some special state, then he is human.

Truth is born from doubts and then is refuted in doubts, and the next one is born. This is how we grow: day and night and day and night, in our sensations, conclusions, analyses, synthesis, and decisions.

Therefore, one who does not make mistakes is not human.

It is humans who make mistakes. Animals do not make mistakes. If an animal makes a mistake, then it is sick. In a person, this is his normal state because he is constantly developing. His evolution takes place throughout his entire life, whereas for animals this is not the case.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Where Is the Truth?” 8/27/11

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