Quotes About Truth

La prueba no está en los argumentos intelectuales sino en ser tocado en alguna medida por lo sagrado.

Todo lo que puedo hacer es recordarle lo que ha olvidado. El conocimiento vivo, antiguo y sin embargo siempre nuevo, se activa entonces y se libera desde el interior de todas las células de su cuerpo.

Mi mente no puede conocerlo a usted, sólo etiquetas, juicios, hechos y opiniones sobre usted. Sólo el Ser conoce directamente.

Most ancient religions and spiritual traditions share the common insight—that our "normal" state of mind is marred by a fundamental defect.

St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

In most ancient cultures, people believed that everything, even so-called inanimate objects, had an indwelling spirit, and in this respect they were closer to the truth than we are today.

Descartes believed that he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking.

Me pregunto ¿es lo que pienso que es o es algo completamente diferente?

Satisfaction through gratification will always be short-lived, therefore it will always be projected again. You see time as the means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation. You get there by realizing you *are* there already.

Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

si no hubiera ilusión no habría iluminación".

the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy

You are not the ego, so when you become aware of the ego in you, it does not mean you know who you are - it means you know who you are not. But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

Si el futuro imaginario es mejor, te da esperanza o expectativas placenteras. Si es peor, crea ansiedad. Ambas son ilusorias.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self. The truth is that the only power there is contained within this moment: It is the power of your presence.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

Being can be felt as the ever-present I am that is beyond name and form. To feel and thus to know that you are and to abide in that deeply rooted state is enlightenment, is the truth that Jesus says will make you free.

Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth.

What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and truer place within yourself, not from the mind.

The ego says, 'I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Scripture exists because we need revelation. We can't see reality clearly with the naked eye. Scripture is God's technology that allows us to see everything we need to see.

Ce qui m'affecte au plus profond, c'est qu'un vocabulaire trompeur remporte la victoire sur le vocabulaire normal. Le triomphe de la force est terrible; le triomphe de la force dans et par le mensonge est horrible.