Originally Posted By: Bill S.
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Where does one look for the truth about ones self?


One could start by looking inward; but then there is a school of thought that maintains that we see ourselves reflected in others.

The inward direction of the subtle senses does not exclude the outward movement of the senses into the relative. It is the inward journey where the awareness becomes familiar with that, which is common in everything that is experienced as the outward reflection of that.

Originally Posted By: Bill S.
Of course, if one accepts the idea of the wholeness of the cosmos, there is no limit to where we might look for truth about ourselves.

Generally speaking all relative truths can be returned to the absolute, and all relative truths can be traced to the absolute. One can find what they think they are or what they think they are not, by searching within the relative reflections of ones beliefs. Or said another way, anyone can find what they are looking for when the mind is carrying an idea or a thought of what is real, because the mind influences the relative.
However there is something which is not contained within any relative experience but is still within all relative experiences.
That absolute is loosely intimated within the quote you use as your signature.

"An infinite, unchanging reality exists hid behind the illusion of ceasless change." The idea that it is unchanging, points to the absolute value that it has above and beyond all ideas and changing relative values. When one becomes aware of that, as the true nature of ones Self, a greater objective viewpoint is seen and experienced. It would be like standing on top of the world with a clear view of what is below, rather than being at tree level where your vision only goes to the objects (tree lines) which are in front of you, blocking the rest of the world behind that line.
Originally Posted By: Bill S.

What is truth?
Obviously this is a question that has, famously, been asked before. Unless/until it might be established that we are capable of any perception that is completely objective, and not interpreted by our subjective memories and pre-conceptions, the whole concept of truth must be more than a little influenced by subjectivity, as far as our understanding of it goes.
The subject of enlightenment and the treatises written by those who discuss this very idea explore this reality with similar understanding and experience. Without the awareness being established in something other than relative values, and an identity with the temporary housing in which consciousness experiences its reflection as the physical body, it is impossible to be objective.

There are texts that go into great depths regarding the objective awareness that is available in higher states of consciousness than waking dreaming and sleeping.

True humility does not find itself within relative ideals but in the awareness and ongoing experience that there is absolutely NO separation with anything or anyone, and that everything is intimately connected.

I was addicted to the Hokey Pokey, but then I turned myself around!!