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“The gears of his mindscape began to spin without his input. What would it even mean to break a person with a single question? It sounded like an extraordinary power, but then again, what if the person broken was him? What if it was Hinata? You couldn’t unask a question, as he’d learned when he found out about the Demon Fox. And you couldn’t predict the long-term consequences of asking one, even if it was as simple as a request to be taught.
But if he could open someone’s eyes to a new way of seeing the world, might the risk it be worth it? Watching someone awaken to a broader, more liberating perspective was a thing of incomparable beauty. Naruto was reminded of that every time he watched Hinata grow. And what was the alternative to honesty anyway? Lying to himself? Not trying to discover the truth when he knew it was out there? Naruto couldn’t see himself as a person who would willingly choose to do that. He couldn’t see, now that the question had been asked, how he could choose not to step onto the path.
That, he realised with a start, was his example of a question that changed someone forever.”
― Lighting Up the Dark
But if he could open someone’s eyes to a new way of seeing the world, might the risk it be worth it? Watching someone awaken to a broader, more liberating perspective was a thing of incomparable beauty. Naruto was reminded of that every time he watched Hinata grow. And what was the alternative to honesty anyway? Lying to himself? Not trying to discover the truth when he knew it was out there? Naruto couldn’t see himself as a person who would willingly choose to do that. He couldn’t see, now that the question had been asked, how he could choose not to step onto the path.
That, he realised with a start, was his example of a question that changed someone forever.”
― Lighting Up the Dark
“The truth is just how the world is shaped,” he finally said. “I don’t see why it has to be more complicated than that. You can know more or less of it, and you can believe all sorts of things about it, and you can have lots of different perspectives on it, but none of those are what the truth is. Those are just ways of talking about yourself. Changing them is just a way of changing yourself. The truth doesn’t care what you do. If the truth is the way the world is shaped, then that means everything in the world is part of it, and vice versa. The only way to change the truth is to change the world itself.”
“You can use it as your beacon, because once you’ve found it, it’s always right there. But if you don’t do that, then you’re just wandering around lost in the fog, and maybe you’ve realised you’re lost, but you don’t know how to get out, or maybe you’ve picked a direction to march off in, and you’re calling loudly for everyone to follow you.”
“And seeking the truth means… wanting to find it even if it’s hard, or if there are lies in front of you that are easier to accept, or if you’re afraid of what you might find, or if you feel like you already know it but you haven’t checked to see if you’re right.”
― Lighting Up the Dark
“You can use it as your beacon, because once you’ve found it, it’s always right there. But if you don’t do that, then you’re just wandering around lost in the fog, and maybe you’ve realised you’re lost, but you don’t know how to get out, or maybe you’ve picked a direction to march off in, and you’re calling loudly for everyone to follow you.”
“And seeking the truth means… wanting to find it even if it’s hard, or if there are lies in front of you that are easier to accept, or if you’re afraid of what you might find, or if you feel like you already know it but you haven’t checked to see if you’re right.”
― Lighting Up the Dark
