Quotes About Truth

Sometimes the things we hide—aren't they the parts of us that matter most?

Sometimes the things we hide—aren't the parts of us that matter most.

Crap. I was a lying chicken.

I'm always right. Except when I'm not.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

We are here making myths that are, at the same time, absolutely true.

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?

how many lies had Maman told Paul over the years?

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

Know ye yet the edda? Know ye yet it all?

King Manuel of Portugal protested, Ferdinand, shading the truth a bit, explained that Solis's task was simply to find the line

No one in Portugal dared to admit the actual reason for Magellan's behavior

he would present phenomena as he observed them with his own eyes.

Only believe half you see and nothing you hear or read Laurence Elliott

The maxim 'Know thyself,' can be a sharp and painful sword, but it must be endured in order to be a True Human Being.

This is Gnosis: the casting off of all that is inauthentic and entering in all your nakedness into the waters of the Real Authenticity.

The word Gnosis was used by the Greeks for 'knowledge' - not everyday common knowledge, but deep knowledge that can only be gained through direct individual revelation. In other words, it is 'Divine Knowledge.

The Way does not consist of gather more knowledge. Abu Madyan Shu'ayb Ibn al-Husayn al Ansari said: 'Worship saves you from the tyranny of formal knowledge.

However, some realities lack an integral congruence, they lack an alignment with the attributes of the nature of the Absolute. When people say, 'Something smells rotten,' they are intuitively referring to the fact that something is not in harmony with the truth or it is synthetic (lacking in authenticity).

None of the various Gnostic groups that existed approximately during the first and second century of the Common Era (anno Domini or AD), which scholars today term Gnostic groups, called themselves by that name. Gnosticism is a seventeenth-century term that scholars invented to define those groups that sought truth and direct experience with the Divine, and who existed approximately during the first two hundred years after the Christos walked the Earth in a physical body.

On the other hand, Christos descended from the realm of Light and brought humanity the light of true knowledge in the simple principles of love. Marcion de Sinope (85 – 160 C.E.) was an important leader in early Christianity. Marcion, in his two brilliant books, explained how the God of the Jews was not the God of whom Jesus spoke. He provided many examples that show that the Jewish god is only a jealous tribal deity.

Dare to live the truth of your myth.

It is essential to realize that while religion may provide a comforting and enjoyable weekly experience, as you attend church every Sunday with your family, religion is no substitute for immediate consciousness of the ultimate reality.