Quotes About Truth

He was starting to think that consciousness wasn't some lighthouse of self-knowing but merely a little cave where you made up stories about yourself, whatever it took to hide the shit and the slime, the utter mollusk you were in your deepest nature. He wondered what was down there, under the shit, what kind of bedrock he might strike. Take

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble.

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand.

If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.

Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that.

Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.

Truth is simple and available to all: why do you complicate? Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble. It always wants, expects, demands. Being false, it is empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance. It is afraid of and avoids inquiry. It identifies itself with any support, however weak and momentary. Whatever it gets, it loses and asks for more.

Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.

What problems can there be which the mind did not create? Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten. It is memory and anticipation that create problems of attainment or avoidance, colored by like and dislike. Truth and love are man's real nature, and mind and heart are the means of its expression.

Questioner: We were told about karma and reincarnation, evolution and Yoga, masters and disciples. What are we to do with all this knowledge? Maharaj: Leave it all behind you. Forget it. Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs. Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives. The Absolute can be reached by absolute devotion only. Don't be half-hearted. Q: I must begin with some absolute truth. Is there any? M: Yes, there is, the feeling: 'I am'. Begin with that.

When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time - behind your back!

You cannot be alive, for you are life itself.

Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.

On the verbal level everything is relative. Absolutes should be experienced, not discussed.

Chanting is the sadhana of consciousness offered to the timeless Self, and the mantra serves as a reminder of this nondual truth.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Have you considered," Rob said slowly, "how each faith claims that it alone has God's heart and ear? We, you, and Islam—each vows it is the true religion. Can it be that we're all three wrong?" "Perhaps we're all three right," Mirdin said.

I live my life in pursuit of truth and beauty. It doesn't pay very well.