“The truth will make you free,” said Jesus. Free for what? In the light of my larger argument in this chapter, I will put it this way: free to make journeys from the self to the other and back and to see our common history from their perspective as well as ours, rather than closing ourselves off and insisting on the absolute truth of our own perspective; free to live a truthful life and hence be a self-effacing witness to truth rather than fabricating our own “truths” and imposing them on others; free to embrace others in truth rather than engage in open or clandestine acts of deceitful
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