Do not believe in anything simply because it is written or spoken

• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha
• Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people’s mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one’s own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge. Buddha
• Teachers are there to point out a way and leave you with the choice. They aren’t there to dictate life to you. If you haven’t learned how to trust your own sense of reality over a guru’s, then you place yourself in a position of vulnerability. Teachers aren’t here to tell you how to live, but simply to tell you what has worked for them. Whether or not you want to follow is your choice. But I feel that so many people have become followers of gurus rather than thinking with their own heads. Vesselin Gueorguiev
• Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Buddha
• Doubt everything. Find your own light. Buddha
• Accept nothing as true that is not your truth. Vernon Howard
• Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book. Bruce Lee
• As soon as anyone tries to ‘impose’ their beliefs on me, attempting to convince or convert me, I walk away; for this is someone who wishes to control my mind, not enlighten it. Remember, learn from everyone you meet, but let no one ‘tell you’ what or how to think. Eric Allen
• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Khalil Gibran
• I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
• Seek always for the answers within. Be not influenced by those around you – by their thoughts or their words. Eileen Caddy
• Walk with those seeking truth… run from those who think they’ve found it. Deepak Chopra
• Read and listen with an open mind, an open heart, but with a firm belief that you are the only final authority on what you choose to believe and accept. Amanda Harvey
• Truth,  Belief,  Wisdom,  Intuition,  The heart,  Learning,  Growth

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Your truth lies within you

• Your inner knowing is your only true compass. Joy Page
• The best expert you’ll ever find in the whole world is your own instincts. John C. Parkin
• There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. Neale Donald Walsch
• Be a light unto yourself. Buddha
• Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. Osho
• To truly find God, truth needs to be found independantly from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. A.H. Almaas
• Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows. Dan Brown
• Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. Buddha
• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha
• Fortunately there are a variety of truths for you to pick from. Fortunately, you are the creator of your own truth. Use the Guidance that is within you. Abraham-Hicks
• It’s not about what’s true and untrue. It’s about what I choose to activate and turn into truth. Abraham-Hicks
• All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself. Neale Donald Walsch  
• I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. Eckhart Tolle
• Listen to your own truth. Ram Dass
• 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
• Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. Osho
• Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there. N. Sri Ram
• You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking, “Is this true for me?” Brian Tracy
• Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own. Bruce Lee
• In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. Dan Brown
• We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal  
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steven P. Jobs
• No man can reveal aught to you but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. Kahlil Gibran
• Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly – not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word “intuition”: to know, or understand from within – from one’s own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence. Donald Walters
• We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would see it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen
• When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. Eckhart Tolle
• Truth,  The treasure within

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Look for these signs to recognise your inner truth  

• When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. Eckhart Tolle
• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. Rumi
• And when we hear the truth, even if we don’t understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us…vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called…re- membered… re- cognized…as that which is already inside us. Dan Brown
• The highest authority lies within me. I believe only what resonates deep within. I let the truth reveal itself. Does it ring true? Does it inspire me? Is this an expression of Who I Am? If it is, it will ring true –  for I will have been reunited with my innermost wisdom. Neale Donald Walsch
• Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else. Raymond Charles Barker
• Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. Steve Albini
• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman
• Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself ‘Is the statement true or false in my experience? Barry Long
• The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself.  Alice Walker
• I choose things by how they resonate in my heart. Rita Coolidge

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Actively examine all that you choose to believe and not believe  

• Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. Walt Whitman
• Many people haven’t taken the time and done the inner work to identify what they truly believe. Without this work, you are a product of the beliefs that were instilled in you long ago. Brad Swift
• Ninety-nine percent of people will die having not examined their conditioning and beliefs in a meaningful way. Brent Kessel
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Choose only truths that empower you  

• Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Gary Zukav
• I re-examine every belief I possess. Does it empower me? Awaken within me my sacred song? All the beliefs that fail are halved and quartered by the Warrior. I choose my beliefs from within. John Kehoe

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Allow what others say to lead you to your own truth, even if you disagree with them  

• Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. Kahlil Gibran
• All we have to know is our own truth, not someone else’s. When we understand this, we understand everything. We understand that what others are saying doesn’t have to be The Truth; it only has to lead us to our own. All things lead us to our inner most truth. That is their purpose. When it comes to knowing the Truth, the highest authority lies within you. Neale Donald Walsch

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It’s fine for your truths to be different from others  

• What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you. Eileen Caddy
• Say not this is true. Say this is true for me. Say not mine is a better way. Say mine is merely another way. Neale Donald Walsch
• Say not I have found the truth, but rather I have found a truth. Kahlil Gibran
• Think for yourselves… and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. Voltaire

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Dare to question conventional beliefs  

• Dare to question old ways, rules and taken for granted beliefs. Dr Irene C. Kassorla
• If a million people say a foolish thing – it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France
• Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity. Dan Brown
• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. Rumi
• Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. Mark Twain
• Loyalty to a petrified belief never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain
• We think as we do, mainly because other people think so. Samuel Butler
• Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.
• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. Gerald G. Jampolsky
• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self- Arthur Schopenhauer
• There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough. William James

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Don’t allow fear to cloud the truth  

• It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God. Wallace D. Wattles
• …trust what you know to be true, not what you fear to be true… Doug Sheresh
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