What struck me (and still strikes me) as useful insight was the idea of truth as a “clearing” process rather than an abstract. When I was converted, my search for a working model of truth was at the core of the changes which were taking place in me. It began with seeing Augustine’s analogy: “we are vessels for truth”, and understanding that as vessels we can never hold pure truth; it is always adulterated or mixed with some falsehood, and that the desire to purify ourselves by seeking truth is a noble purpose. So reading Heidegger gave me other metaphors with which to explore the notion of truth.

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