Quotes About Lies

self-attachment is the first sign of madness, but it is because man is attached to himself that he accepts error as truth, lies as reality, violence and ugliness as beauty and justice.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind. We are searching for justice because in the belief system we have, there is no justice. We search for beauty because it doesn't matter how beautiful a person is, we don't believe that person has beauty. We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us. There is no truth to find.

That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.

Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.

There are truths covering lies, and lies covering truth. Like peeling an onion, you uncover the truth little by little until in the end, you open your eyes to find out that everyone around you, including yourself, is lying all the time.

The truth is like a scalpel because it is painful to open our wounds and uncover all of the lies. The wounds in our emotional body are covered by the denial system, the system of lies we have created to protect those wounds. When we look at our wounds with eyes of truth, we can finally heal these wounds.

By the time we grow up, our faith is already invested in so many lies that we hardly have any power left to create the dream that we want to create.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else. By not believing, whatever is untrue will disappear like smoke in this world of illusion. Everything is what it is. You don't need to justify what is true; you don't need to explain it. What is true doesn't need anyone's support. Your lies need your support.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind. We are searching for justice because in the belief system we have, there is no justice. We search for beauty because it doesn't matter how beautiful a person is, we don't believe that person has beauty. We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us.

The mind is fertile ground for concepts, ideas, and opinions. If someone tells us a lie and we believe it, that lie takes root in our mind and can grow big and strong, like a tree. One little lie can be very contagious, spreading its seeds from person to person when we share it with others.

The living have a simple choice. They can pay a high penalty for believing their lies—sheer stupidity!—or laugh at themselves and be happy.

instead of doubting yourself, have faith in yourself. Instead of doubting the truth, doubt the lies. Be skeptical, but learn to listen.

The truth leads us to our authenticity, to happiness. Lies lead us to limitations in our lives, to suffering and drama. Whoever believes in truth, lives in heaven. Whoever believes in lies, sooner or later lives in hell.

He had spent a lifetime cleansing his mind of poison. He had searched his heart, found the corruption, and removed it. He had torn away the lies—lies he'd been told and had believed, and lies he had devised and used against himself. This was his mastery—the purification of the mind and the recovery of authenticity. This scene symbolized the mastery of death, the awakening.

Each one of them was a potential warrior, capable of facing the battle within himself, but they'd all devoted too much energy to fighting outward battles instead. They would have to confront their own lies.

Toda la humanidad busca la verdad, la justicia y la belleza. Estamos inmersos en una búsqueda eterna de la verdad porque sólo creemos en las mentiras que hemos almacenado en nuestra mente. Buscamos la justicia porque en el sistema de creencias que tenemos no existe. Buscamos la belleza porque, por muy bella que sea una persona, no creemos que lo sea. Seguimos buscando y buscando cuando todo está ya en nosotros.

The truth doesn't need you to believe it; the truth simply is, and it survives whether you believe it or not. Lies need you to believe them. If you don't believe lies, they don't survive your skepticism, and they simply disappear.

The Voice of Knowledge by don Miguel Ruiz* Ruiz transforms complex human issues into simple common sense. He tells us that all of our emotional suffering is because we believe in lies — mainly about ourselves.

Buscamos ser lo que éramos antes de creer en las mentiras: auténticos, verdaderos, amorosos, dichosos. La verdad es que estamos buscando nuestro Yo.

Can you see the consequences of believing yourself? Believing yourself is one of the worst things you can do because you've been telling yourself lies your whole life, and if you believe all those lies, that's why your dream isn't a pleasant dream.

El cielo existe cuando nuestros ojos espirituales están abiertos, cuando percibimos el mundo a través de los ojos de la verdad. Una vez que las mentiras captan nuestra atención, nuestros ojos espirituales se cierran. Caemos del sueño del cielo y empezamos a vivir el sueño del infierno.

For thousands of years people have believed there is a conflict between good and evil in the universe. But this is not true. The real conflict is between truth and what is not truth. The conflict exists in the human mind, not in the rest of nature. Good and evil are the result of that conflict. Believing in truth results in goodness; believing in and defending what is not truth results in evil. Evil is just the result of believing in lies.

Your nature is to love; remember your nature. If you are acting against your nature, you're pretending to be another species. You've pretended so long that you actually are another species. Awareness means seeing, and remembering, the truth—it never went away. It never was gone, but your attention has been on the lies.

She did not need Miguel to explain that love, unconditional and unremitting, is the essence of life. She knew well that love based on conditions is a twisted copy of the truth, and yet it is there that humanity plays—there, in the shade of a metaphorical tree that wavers like a sullen mirage and scatters the seeds of a million lies.