Quotes About Truth

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

Truth and effort may increase human worth But they are not enough to make us whole; Only love can complete us.

Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth.

Many people hide inside of their "not-knowing" and, afraid of taking the risk, settle for mediocrity in their life. They imitate the same safe, easy life that other people walk. They mistake that for happiness and, inside of it, look for security. However, the moment that the defensive shields we've built up come down, all truths reveal themselves and speak to us. When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path.

In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a wordsmithed Truth is nothing but a shadow of the shadow of the Truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a fower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the Truth?

I'm your soul.

The Tao is the ultimate truth and substance of life. It is what all of humanity's spiritual seekers have been pursuing, and it is complete oneness. It is the principle of life energy flowing behind all things in the cosmos, and it is the ultimate wholeness to which all things, on becoming one, return. Although it is all things in existence, the Tao is also the source and background that causes them to exist.

That absolute, ultimate reality is always there within us (as it is everywhere else, as well). whether we are aware of it or not, it is there, like the sun shining behind the clouds, invisible because of the clouds, but undeniably there. The sun of our inner nature, the LifeParticle Sun, is always shining, whether we see it or not. And because it is already there, we don't need to create or achieve it. We just have to acknowledge it.

When you awaken to true nothingness and all the empty fictions you once thought of as "Me" disappear, then self-existent life without beginning and without end finally touches your heart.

When you study by listening directly to the teacher, it is like turning an attentive ear to our body, and that is Dahnhak. All scriptures are a kind of teachings, and the means to get to the Truth, but they are not the Truth itself. The awakened can feel the Truth. When this is translated into words and letters, they get to lose the heart and soul of the Truth. -- from "The Way to Light Up Your Divinity

A free soul can truly be at rest. Only a free soul can see the world as it is, superficial and fleeting.

The resurrection of Jesus is pure myth.

to be human is to have "a ceaseless drive toward meaning and truth…there is a dynamic thrust to the human intellect that constantly presses toward the fullness of meaning and truth in the Absolute."18

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

That´s the problem with the truth. Sometimes the truth is ambiguous, or really bad cliche.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

I don't know what I expected. No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted.

Neither was evil. They were both true to who they are.

Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.

But all sympathetic magic has some basis in fact. The brain's wired to seek the mystical, so...- -Just because we're hardwired to want to believe doesn't make it true.-

Yes we lived. We lived, yes, don't say it was a dream/

I'm not meant to be part of the things that are wrong with the world, but neither am I meant to run from them. I'm meant to fight against them. I can't hold my own in the ring, but out in the world, I do know how to fight. With words. With truth.