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We live in the age of individuality.
Yet, many people still flaunt their conformity.
Conformity in life and in truth.
Others strive to arrange their life
in the way of the principles of individualism.
Individualists are free in life.
And individualists are also free in truth.
Individualists seek truth in the depths of human nature.
There are two well known paths to truth.
One way is to seek truth in the outer world.
The other way is to seek truth within.
It is inner truth that is most useful today.
Inner truth appears within.
Inner truth is individual truth.
Here are some principles that explain the value of individual truth.
Today, if I am to be convinced of something,
I must recognize it in my own inner life as truth.
A truth that comes from the outside brings uncertainty.
Only inner truth can give the individual the power of conviction.
One's talents are weakened when confused by riddles.
One's talents are weakened when tormented by doubts.
Inner truth gives the individual the certainty
and clarity to set personal goals of action.
We no longer want to believe; we want to know.
Belief demands the acceptance of truths
that we do not fully understand.
The only knowledge that satisfies springs from the inner life.
We want to act out of knowledge.
We do not want a knowledge bound in academic rules
and preserved forever in reference books.
We have a right to start from our own experience,
and from there
advance to knowledge of the whole universe.
Each of us strives for knowledge in our own way.
Facts of knowledge should not be crammed into students.
The students capacities should be developed
so they want to understand.
These are the principles of individual truth.
This is what freedom looks like.