Quotes About Truth

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.

Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free.

Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know."—Tao Te Ching

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Illusions are like mistresses. We can have many of them without tying ourselves down to responsibility. But truth insists on marriage. Once a person embraces truth, he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp."—Rabazar Tarzs

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather, you are penetrating the layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things are. There are always multiple versions of reality. To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature. Meditation is a device to do just that.

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. —Thomas Merton

The thing about perspective is: something happens. it means nothing. we make up a story about what it means based on what we feel. this story becomes our truth. this story creates our reality, our world, what is possible and what is not.

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.

In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namasté," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where, if you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. Namasté

Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we're afraid of truth.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer."—de Lubicz

Satsang is a community of truth seekers. It is a group of people with the shared awareness that there is a spiritual dimension to the universe. Goethe had this beautiful thought: "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Whoever clings to mind sees not The truth of what's Beyond the mind. Whoever strives to practice Dharma Finds not the truth of Beyond-practice. To know what is Beyond both mind and practice, One should cut cleanly through the root of mind And stare naked. One should thus break away From all distinctions and remain at ease.

Maharaji, he would tell me repeatedly, "Ram Dass, love everyone and tell the truth.

you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

the journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth