i have recently been reading the wu-tang manual, done by the RZA, and it’s been a fun and informative book to read. anyone with that kind of vision is going to have a good story to tell, no doubt.

the book is full of little insights to hip-hop and life in general, but there was one line that resonated, even though i kinda took it out of context. i don’t have the exact quote on me but it went something like “the truth is a magnet, it draws things towards it”. in a way he is totally right, but what immediately struck me is that this is a perfect metaphor for the truth, but he only covered the attraction qualities.

some materials can be influenced by magnets, others will remain unaffected. that’s a pretty obvious metaphor. if it has the same polarity as the magnets, then it will even be repulsed, and that’s where i think it hits a little deeper. this kind of repulsion/attraction is what brings balance to the truth, keeps it in check. without something to diametrically oppose the truth, there is no frame of reference, no way to know besides a straight judgement call.

at the opposite ends of any given truth can be the two extremes, with the two inextricably stuck together as one whole, like a magnet with a N/S pole, leaving the center of these two ideas to be the convergence area of the magnetic field. so there’s a black end, a white end, and a grey middle. see where i’m going with this? i think it may even be too simplisitic, but i always find it strangely coincidental that there are so many aspects of consciousness that run parallel with the natural universe.

of course i could be drawing conclusions i find convenient, seeing what i want to see. which i don’t really see as a fault anymore. for all extensive purposes, it feels impossible to avoid. but the meshing of a positive and a negative is what makes that grey area, that center where the truth is in the jumble, but impossible to pinpoint. you just know it’s there deep in that place where you don’t question anything because you know there is nothing to question in the end, it just is. a combination of what you know with what you feel, jumbled together to create a balance that is struck of it’s own accord.

i need more than 10 minutes to hammer this out, but that’s all i get. at least for now. the magnets will still be here when i get back. might even help me win at some video games.