Small empty slate chair facing a standing oval mirror

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Paracelsus  ·  1835

Robert Browning

Truth is within ourselves.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The statement locates truth inside the person seeking it. Its simplicity shifts attention from accumulating outside answers toward examining what is already present in one’s own understanding. That inward direction gives the line its confidence, while leaving open the work needed to recognise what we carry within.

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