To Possess or Let Flow

The line on a Facebook post went something like this:

“If we would all possess the same truth, we could get along.”

I thought, possess and truth do not belong in the same sentence.

This must be an error!

Does this person want to build a dam for a flowing river?

Stop the wind from blowing?

I rewrote the sentence:

If we go deep within, we find a truth that flows throughout all life.

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” 

Rainer Maria Rilke

“The river is everywhere.” 

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“Humans, chuckled the vampire, so possessive.” 

Gail Carriger, Soulless

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