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What does it mean to pursue the truth? To view people and things, and to conduct oneself and act, wholly according to God's words, with the truth as one's criterion. You must inscribe these words in your hearts, and use them as your life motto. Take them out often and ponder over them; hold your behavior, your attitude in life, your views on things, and your intents and goals up against them for comparison. You'll then be able to clearly know what your true state is, and what the disposition essence you reveal is. Then, refer back to these words, and take them as your principles of practice, and as the path and direction for your practice. When you pursue in this way, when you are able to completely enter into and live out these words, you will understand what it means to pursue the truth. Naturally, when you enter into the reality of these words, you'll have already embarked on the path of pursuing the truth.

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When you embark on the path of pursuing the truth, you'll become increasingly less troubled by the disturbance, control, and constraints of your corrupt disposition. You'll feel that you have a path for resolving your corrupt disposition, and that there's hope for you to be saved. Only then will you feel that a life of truly believing in God and eating and drinking His words is fulfilling, peaceful, and joyful. After many years of believing in God, those who do not love the truth feel that life is just as empty as ever, and that there is nothing for them to rely on. Often, they even feel that it is truly painful to live within a corrupt disposition, and though they wish to cast it off, they cannot. They remain forever constrained, fettered, and bound by their corrupt disposition. All of this greatly troubles them, yet they have no path at all to follow. These bitter days of theirs are endless. If they could accept the truth and attain salvation, then these bitter days would pass.

from The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth. What It Means to Pursue the Truth (2)