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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
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Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt
to be neither. ~Christmas Humphreys
Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst. ~Rumi
I can nourish myself on nothing but truth. ~St. Therese de Lisieux
Sometimes, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling
it too strong, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your
door, you will not open it. ~Buddha
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. ~Stephen Levine
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our
original selves. ~Dogen
Truth does not become error just because nobody believes it. ~Mahatma
Gandhi
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow-and that is likely
to hurt. ~Wei Wu Wei
It is still up to you to choose
to join with truth or with illusion,
But remember that to choose one
is to let go of the other.
~A Course in Miracles
seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here.
~e. e. cummings
The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always
emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating subtle,
precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the
unsurpassed ultimate truth. ~Yuan Sou
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can
know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to
serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ~Igor Stravinski
It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To
realize the truth is to live–to exist here and now. ~Shunryu Suzuki
Wherever you are is the entry point. ~Kabir
Whoever loves true life, will love true love. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity
is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster
than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it
from the inside out. ~Alan Cohen
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect
to find it? ~Dogen
Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever
true. ~A Course in Miracles
If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight, will
illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.
Silence will unite you to God. ~Thomas Merton
Truth is not a word, it is not a concept; it isn’t your truth and my truth, the
Christian truth and the Muslim truth. Truth like love, has no nationality, but
to love and to see truth there must be no hate, no jealousy, no division and
no anger.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de St. Exupery
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. ~John 8:32
The discovery of the truth is the discernment of the false. You can know
what is not. What is–you can only be. Do you understand that the mind has
its limits? To go beyond you must consent to silence. ~Nisargadatta
Maharaj
Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin
in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding
and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will
become wise later. ~Chuang Tzu
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it
divides us from truth. ~Kahlil Gibran
Truth has no path. Truth is living, and therefore, changing. ~Bruce Lee
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false, and the second,
to know that which is true. ~Lactantius
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This above all–to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
~Shakespeare, Hamlet
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is
outside of all fixed patterns. ~Bruce Lee
Grace is the power of Truth that vanquishes untruth. ~Sufi saying
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. ~Edward Abbey
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty;
Beauty is the outward form of Truth.
~Grace Aguilar
Truth is freedom. Truth requires no belief, no effort. It is what is. Of course
words cannot express this. But truth is freedom. ~Tom Thompson
If you surrender to the truth that no phenomenon can ever touch, you are
free. ~Gangaji
The most important thing in spiritual life is growth and evolution. We must
have an attitude of appropriating and assimilating the light of truth
wherever we find it. ~Haridas Chaudhuri
The truth is now and here. So it is everywhere. If it is not first found now
and here, it will be found nowhere else and at no other time. ~Atmananda
Krishna Menon
Start where you are right now. Stay in that place, then in each moment, you
can feel what’s totally appropriate for you. You don’t let any concepts get in
the way. Let go of the storyline. Truth doesn’t move from concepts or ideas.
It’s a moment to moment to moment total honesty and integrity with
yourself. Every day you feel what to do. ~Adyashanti
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life
and share with the people the same happiness. ~Kahlil Gibran
The absolute truth, the eternal principle, that is God. ~Mohandas Gandhi
Knowingness of Truth arises from a silent mind, a mind which is not
evaluating and struggling to know. ~Adyashanti
Truth is revealed when the Self becomes one with God. ~Baba Hari Dass
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie. ~George Herbert
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which
alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to
Truth is one of hostility and fear! ~Anthony de Mello
The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
~Adyashanti
By ignorance the truth is known. ~Heinrich Suso
Where the is no truth there is no peace. ~Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your
opinions.” Drop your theories; don’t seek the truth. ~Anthony de Mello
In order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness
itself, you must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure.
~Adyashanti
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes
the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real
spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart. ~Adyashanti
When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with
truth, then you have suffering. ~Anthony de Mello
Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard
The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark. ~Wu-Men
We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
~Kakuzo Okakura
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
~Dorothy Allison
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers
tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living. To
live is to find out for yourself what is true. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Suffering is a sign you’re out of touch with the truth. ~Anthony de Mello
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is
discovered minute to minute or not at all. ~Adyashanti
Truth hurts –not the searching after; the running from! ~John Eyberg
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and
gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through, it will
blow up everything in its way. ~Emile Zola
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any
path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every
decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each
action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness.
~Kathleen Pedersen
The Path is essentially the finding of the truth which is already within
yourself. ~Imre Vallyon
How sad that people ignore the near
And search for truth afar:
Like someone in the midst of water
Crying out in thirst.
~Hakuin
An Advaita teacher says to me: “You are not a person. There is only
Oneness”. I find the truth in that. Somebody else says to me: “There is no
Oneness. You ARE a person”. I find the truth in that, too. It’s so beautiful,
finding the truth in every belief, and not having to believe in any of it. ~Jeff
Foster
What we pretend to be defending as the “truth” is really our own self-
esteem. ~Thomas Merton
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow
Lindbergh
Truth does not become true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees
with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. ~Maimonides
We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
~Kakuzo Okakura
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a
bedrock of truth, however hard. ~ May Sarton
Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living. ~Jiddu
Krishnamurti
The mind searches for a formula, a code of living. The truth is you have
plenty of formulas, plenty of codes, and the absolute truth is free of it all.
~Gangaji
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it
might turn out to be. ~Alan Watts
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now, always. ~Albert
Schweitzer
No one’s mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing. ~Alan Watts
A truly spiritual person lives for the Truth, and breathes for Love. ~Amma
Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don’t have
to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will
reveal themselves in the still water of our heart. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you.
It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be
with yourself. ~Osho
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of
the silence. ~Sri Aurobindo
A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the very essence of
Truth. ~Rumi
Each time you remember the truth, you bring more light into the world.
~Lao Tzu
No, nobody ever reaches truth. It is always the reverse: truth comes to you.
Whenever you are ready, it knocks on your door; it seeks you whenever you
are ready. And the readiness is nothing but receptivity. When you are
completely receptive, and there is no ego, you become a hollow temple
with nobody in it. ~Osho
The real seeker of truth never seeks truth. On the contrary, he tries to clean
himself of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere – and when his heart is
ready, purified, the guest comes. ~Osho
Truth is that which lies in a dimension beyond the reach of thought. Whole-
mind has no ‘thoughts’, thoughts are split-mind. ~Wei Wu Wei
If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the
truth of the universe resides in each and every human being. ~Morihei
Ueshiba
Truth is not far away; it is ever present. It is not something to be attained,
since not one of your steps leads away from it. ~Dogen
Truth cannot be communicated. It can only be laid bare. ~Wei Wu Wei
Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower
we can see the truth of the universe. ~Buddha
The only language able to express the whole truth is silence. ~Ramana
Maharshi
The farther you enter the truth, the deeper it is. ~Bankei Zenji
The truest sayings are paradoxical. ~Lao Tzu
Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth–truth is also seeking
you. ~Osho
Our addiction to always being “right” is a great block to the truth. It keeps
us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural
wisdom. ~Stephen Levine
Don’t follow people. Follow truth. ~Alan Cohen
Truth is simple; hence innocence is needed, not knowledge. Hence a pure
heart is needed, not a mind full of information. Hence love is needed, not
logic. Truth is simple. ~Osho
In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light. ~Osho
Reality is the only true therapy. ~Alan Cohen
Truth can only come when the mind is empty, when the mind ceases to
create. Then it will come without your invitation. Then it will come as
swiftly as the wind and unbeknown. It comes obscurely, not when you are
watching, wanting. It is there as sudden as sunlight, as pure as the night; but
to receive it, the heart must be full and the mind empty. ~Jiddu
Krishnamurti
Truth is perfect and complete in itself. It is not something newly
discovered: it has always existed. ~Master Dogen
The Truth is revealed when we allow ourselves to not know, so I invite you
to set aside all that you know for the time being and allow yourself to look
with innocent eyes at what the words are attempting to unveil. ~Nirmala
It’s not about becoming true, it’s about unbecoming false, so that all that’s
left is truth. ~Jed McKenna
Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but
your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears,
concepts and ideas and live by truth alone. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
