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Life is a search for truth

• Convert life into truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Sacrifice life to truth. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Truth is life’s most precious commodity. Edwin Louis Cole
• Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth. Adyashanti
• Truth should be the very breath of our life. Mahatma Gandhi
• The search for truth is really a lot of good fun. Vernon Howard
• Love and the search for truth are unifying principles. Dominique de Menil
• The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined. Raquel Cepeda
• A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged. M. Scott Peck
• True education is awakening a love for truth…opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. David O. McKay
• In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth. Michael Leunig
• We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning. Arthur Schopenhauer
• It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting. Ben Bradlee
• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday’s truth is today’s bullshit. Even yesterday’s liberating insight is today’s jail of stale explanation. Brad Blanton
• Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together. William J. Clinton
• Oh, Life’s richest Treasures are not over seas, but here, every day, close at hand. Vast Treasures of Knowledge are ours to enjoy, are ours to search out and attain; and Words, Colours, Harmonics we can employ to make lovely Treasures again. And Treasures there are, like—A walk with a friend; a garden; the spire of a church… our Life is a Treasure-Hunt right to the end, if only we’d join in the search! Marjorie G. Hellier
• We must do more than speak the truth.. We must also hear truth. We must also receive truth. We must also act upon truth. We must also search for truth. The difficult truth Within us and around us. We must devote ourselves to truth. Otherwise we are dishonest. And our lives are mistaken. God grant us the strength and the courage To be truthful.   Michael Leunig

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This search for truth, some argue, is the very purpose of life

• There is no god higher than truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• Don’t go for happiness, go for truth! Charles Tart
• Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. Blaise Pascal
• The right to search for truth implies also a duty. Albert Einstein
• In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. Dan Brown
• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. Cicero
• The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy
• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
• There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Gautama Buddha
• If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. Morris West
• The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick II, the Great
• 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
• God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life. Jacob Needleman
• We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life. Emilie Cady
• I think a man’s duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life. Plato
• A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play. Arthur C. Clarke
• The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man’s insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity…. And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough…. Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery. Raymond B. Fosdick

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To set up a hunt for truth is the very reason the universe exists and why it exists as it does

• Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself. Owen Gingerich
• The sole purpose of creation is to compel you to solve its mystery and perceive God behind all. Paramahansa Yogananda
• As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so Freeman Dyson
• In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better. Xenophanes
• There are two extremes to worry about. One is the extreme in which everything is known and there’s nothing left to do. The other is where everything is so complicated you can never begin to do anything. We are lucky to live in a universe were there are laws of nature and things to discover, but they’re not impossibly difficult, so we can understand them to some extent. But they’re also difficult enough so that we’re nowhere near understanding them all. There are exhilarating discoveries yet to be made. It’s the best possible world. Carl Sagan
• What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How can anyone help asking ‘what’ and ‘why’ when surrounded by an infinite sky? Ron James

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Life and existence is a riddle to solve…

• What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. Walter de La Mare
• In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. Charlie Brown
• Life’s perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. S. Gilbert
• The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The causes of life’s history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life’s meaning. Stephen Jay Gould
• But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. Paul Watzlawick
• We should all relax about life because you don’t have a clue as to what’s really going on. Barry Sonnenfeld
• Riddle: A question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning. Oxford Dictionary
• Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. George Arthur Buttrick
• It is man’s destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth. Charles Kettering
• Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. Carl Jung
• Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries. Rudolf Bultmann
• The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. Terry Pratchett
• We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images. Peter Redgrove
• Isn’t it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I’ve noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator . . . Sophie Scholl
• I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle–even though it cannot be solved–is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. Tom Robbins
• Children are the proof we’ve been here . . . they’re where we go to when we die. They’re the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there’s nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there’s any answer, it has to be them. Allison Pearson
• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world — its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That’s all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in “to love” or “to learn” it does not have value. Anne Rice

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…and a lesson to be learned

• Rule Number One is this: If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer. Gay Hendricks
• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller
• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck. Oprah Winfrey
• In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett
• The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced. Liam Payne
• Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie
• The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. Albert Einstein
• If you learn life’s lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. Robert Kiyosaki
• In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late. Taylor Swift

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The search for truth is akin to a treasure hunt

• After all, life is a treasure hunt. The wise man, however, seeks the trove invisible, treasure in the abstract, treasure of the spirit. The pirate’s kettle is but sounding brass and the clinking doubloons but a tinkling cymbal.
• Oh, Life’s richest Treasures are not over seas, but here, every day, close at hand. Vast Treasures of Knowledge are ours to enjoy, are ours to search out and attain; and Words, Colours, Harmonics we can employ to make lovely Treasures again. And Treasures there are, like—A walk with a friend; a garden; the spire of a church… our Life is a Treasure-Hunt right to the end, if only we’d join in the search! Marjorie G. Hellier
• Life is a treasure hunt with more treasure than we can ever find. Each encounter with life is a treasure of the memory. We go afield to make new memories and to relive the old. Kevin J. Cook
• Life is a treasure hunt. We are all searching for something that will make life worth living. Many a man in this modern world feels like a castaway on disappointment island, surrounded by those demons distrust and despair, depression, and disaster. Little does he guess that almost at his side lies a hidden treasure.
• All life is a treasure hunt; and it is a wise heart that can become “as a little child;” can find happiness in shells and sand; can use the simple, common things of every day for pleasure; and play the game of either labor or leisure, irrespective of rewards.
• The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure. Eric Ludy

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Life leaves many clues along the way in our quest for truth…

• I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny. Ann Brashares
• I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention. Deepak Chopra
• You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He’ll announce it with a big bang. He might. It’s more likely that He won’t. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too. Steven Furtick
• Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he’s a master of concealment. Jostein Gaarder
• Isn’t the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels. Jane Hirshfield
• Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn’t stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot. Glen Duncan
• Maybe it’s all utterly meaningless. Maybe it’s all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we’re in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody’s lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues. Frederick Buechner
• Our present world contains clues…to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things. Alister E. McGrath

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…but many of them are false clues that add spice to the search

• Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes.  M. Forster
• Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren’t. Peter Greenaway

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The physical universe points to truths about the spiritual dimension and God…

• That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing. Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
• In Hermeticism, the phrase “As above, so below” can be taken to indicate that earthly matters reflect the operation of the astral plane. Wikipedia
• The Law of Correspondence (Immutable): The second of the seven Universal Laws tells us “As above, so below; as below, so above”. This means that there is “harmony, agreement and correspondence” between the physical, mental and spiritual realms. There is no separation since everything in the Universe, including you, originates from the One Source. The same pattern is expressed on all planes of existence from the smallest electron to the largest star and vice versa. All is One. The Ancient Greek Temple of Apollo at Delphi was referring to this great Law of Correspondence in the inscription “Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and the Universe”. Tania Kotsos
• As above, so below; as below so above. The Kybalion
• The created world, below, is depicted as a reflection of God, above. They are the same yet mirror opposites. By understanding the image in the mirror you can learn about the original. Catherine Beyer
• If we look below the surface of things another dimension of reality is revealed. This is the great discovery of science. And it’s paralogically complementary to the message of spirituality, which also teaches that if we look beyond the superficial appearances a deeper reality is revealed. Tim Freke
• All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. Edwin Powell Hubble
• God’s nature is dimly reflected in the nature of his creation, and that’s something we ought to expect if God is the Creator. When we begin by saying that “God’s nature is reflected in…” we are first acknowledging that our observations of the temporal, material world can only give us limited information about an eternal, immaterial God. Warner
• God organized nature in certain ways to teach us about who he is. Ryan Hawkins
• See God illustrated in nature. And when you do so, you don’t have to think that you’re summoning something up on our own. You instead can know that you’re digging into glories in nature that God purposefully put there to show us himself. Ryan Hawkins

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…and nothing points to truth more than nature

• All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. Edwin Powell Hubble
• Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse. Albert Einstein
• Nature never gives everything at once. Samuel Johnson
• God organized nature in certain ways to teach us about who he is. Ryan Hawkins
• See God illustrated in nature. Ryan Hawkins

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The hunt for truth is a lifelong journey

• As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant. Albert Einstein

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There are many paths to truth

• One truth, many paths. Swami Satchidananda
• There is no one true religion, each religion has its truths and there are many paths we can choose to take that will lead us to to God. Jack Preston King
• Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one’s own way to the highest, to one’s own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one’s ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication. Algernon Black
• Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. Dan Brown
• All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Sometimes it is searching for truth that is as rewarding as truth itself

• I discovered that searching can be as interesting as finding. Paulo Coelho
• In the end the great truth will have been learned: that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game. Benjamin Cordozo
• Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. L. Konigsburg
• The search for truth is more precious than its possession. Albert Einstein
• Truth is more in the process than in the result. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. Arthur Schopenhauer
• It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing’s fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession. Albert Einstein

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We hunt for truth through a sifting of evidence…

• The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don’t want to go there. Bart D. Ehrman
• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Peter Kreeft
• Evidence exhausts the truth. Georges Braque
• Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth. Isaac Watts
• Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence. Karl Deutsch
• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. Samuel Johnson
• All necessary truth is its own evidence. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn’t handed to you on a platter. It’s not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It’s a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means. Errol Morris

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… through the use of the senses…

• In the search for truth – that everything in nature seems to hide – man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake. Robert Green Ingersoll
• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense. Justus von Liebig

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…through investigation, observation and experimentation…

• Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth. G. Wells
• Experiment is the sole source of truth. Henri Poincare
• By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions. E Davey
• The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one’s a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one’s theoretical models. Lawrence M. Krauss
• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary. Galileo Galilei
• Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth. Nhat Hanh
• The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. Richard P. Feynman
• The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.” Richard P. Feynman
• I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth…as my life consists of nothing but those experiments. Mahatma Gandhi
• Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. Roger Bacon
• In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. Carl Linnaeus
• A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. Alexis Carrel
• For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. Arthur Eddington
• The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God. God shows himself by allowing man to establish truth. Derek Barton
• One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. David Douglass

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…through embracing doubt…

• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes
• Answers given with authority negate the search for truth. Neil Innes

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…through transcending duality, attachment and motive…

• A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery. Mahatma Gandhi
• Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual “truth.” Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love. Ramesh S Balsekar

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…through self-examination…

• What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner. M. Scott Peck
• Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our ‘selves’. As long as we think about the world in terms of ‘self’ and ‘others’, our actions will be selfish. Our ‘self’ follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited. Tarthang Tulku
• It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul’s purest desire, its dream for your life. Deepak Chopra
• The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that’s a bit much. Clarice Lispector

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…through enquiry…

• Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book. Bruce Lee
• It’s important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought… Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it’s about realizing what’s true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around. ~ Byron Katie
• The Truth is that Self is constant and unintermittent Awareness. The object of enquiry is to find the true nature of the Self as Awareness. Let one practise enquiry so long as separateness is perceived. Ramana Maharshi

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…through cooperation…

• The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles. Noam Chomsky

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…and ultimately through self-realisation

• Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. Ramana Maharshi
• Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are. Ramesh S Balsekar
• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. Richard Wright
• To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life. Karen Horney
• The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. Nirmala Srivastava
• One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. Swami Vivekananda
• Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong. Swami Paramananda
• Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong. Swami Paramananda
• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others. Harold Klemp
• Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being. Harold Klemp
• What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection! Aleister Crowley
• Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self. Ramana Maharshi
• The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux. Paramahansa Yogananda
• To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation. Nirmala Srivastava
• Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. Rabindranath Tagore
• Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self. Ralph Waldo Trine
• Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it’s light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness.  The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides. Nirmala Srivastava
• After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths. ~ Nirmala Srivastava”

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Truth can be found through reason, analysis and doubt…

• In seeking truth, you have to get both sides of a story. Walter Cronkite
• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. Aesop
• Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• By doubting we come at truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed. Friedrich Nietzsche

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… but can also be found by the heart …  

• We arrive at truth, not by reason only, but also by the heart. Pascal
• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung
• We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. Carl Jung
• To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from you head but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego but a truth from the highest source. You have to be willing to be deeply honest with yourself about the shape your life is in each day. Debbie Ford
• The search for truth begins in your heart. Rickson Gracie
• Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth. Kabir
• I choose things by how they resonate in my heart. Rita Coolidge
• Although the intellect is easily fooled, the heart recognizes the truth. Where the intellect is limited, the heart is unlimited; where the intellect is intrigued by the temporary, the heart is only concerned with the permanent. David R. Hawkins
• We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal
• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. Rumi
• Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows. Dan Brown
• 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
• 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
• It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. T. Jong
• When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart. Oswald Chambers

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… and through intuition  

• 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

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The greatest litmus test for truth is personal experience

• Truth is what stands the test of experience. Albert Einstein
• 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
• There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. John Stuart Mill
• The experiences of life teach truth. Harold Klemp
• ‘Truth’ signifies direct experience of spiritual Fact, as opposed to second-hand knowledge about Reality, formulated in sentences and accepted on authority. Aldous Huxley
• A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience. Rajneesh
• A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. It is this experience toward which the course is directed. A Course in Miracles
• All learning is held as tentative until the innate truth reveals itself and is validated experientially. David R. Hawkins
• Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves. Swami  Vivekananda
• Experience is the revealer. Enquire into the nature of experience to find the truth. Rupert Spira
• Forget your “past experience” and look directly at the experience you are having. Right Here, Right Now. There is your Truth. Neale Donald Walsch
• If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true. Kabir
• Indeed, the saving truth has never been preached by the Buddha, seeing that one has to realize it within oneself. Sutralamkara
• Simplicity is one of the earmarks of truth, verified by subjective experience. David R. Hawkins
• There is a difference between having ‘heard’ a truth and having discovered it as an inner reality. David R. Hawkins
• Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described, and it cannot be explained. I can make you aware of the conditions of truth, but the experience is of God. Together we can meet its conditions, but truth will dawn upon you of itself. A Course in Miracles
• Truth cannot be described, but it can be experienced. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Ultimately, awakening awareness is experiential. Alone, offered ‘truth’ is but more words in a world too cluttered with pretentious words. Experiencing ‘truth’ will affect a permanent change in you. G.’s Zaadz
• Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. James Madison
• You will find you know nothing for sure — you trust on hearsay. To know the truth, you must pass through your own experience. Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Errors and mistakes can play an important role in revealing truth

• Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. Vilfredo Pareto
• Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. Francis Bacon
• Error is not always the result of a want of education, but often a lack of power to comprehend the truth. James Lendall Basford
• Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Jules Verne
• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. Isaac Asimov
• If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out. Rabindranath Tagore
• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Great art can reveal truth

• Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth. Pat B. Allen
• The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths. Stefan Zweig
• Art still has truth. Take refuge there. Matthew Arnold
• Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness? Ken Wilber
• If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it. Jeanette Winterson
• An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth. Geza Vermes
• Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. John Ruskin
• Remember that an artist’s life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines. I learned and adapted to my search. I expect nothing from you. Question the truth of anything you confront. How does it apply to yourself and the trail you are pursuing? Brice Marden
• Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth. Barbra Streisand
• It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. Robert Browning
• Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. Aberjhani
• The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. Tho The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. Theodor W. Adorno
• Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather
• Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam. Austin O’Malley

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Science can reveal truth

• Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Ken Wilber
• Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. Benjamin Disraeli
• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist’s search for truth. Irving Langmuir
• Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Alan Dershowitz
• Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. Linus Pauling
• Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. Linus Pauling
• Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence – evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold onto medieval practices because they are tradition. Ricky Gervais
• Science is not to be regarded merely as a storehouse of facts to be used for material purposes, but as one of the great human endeavors to be ranked with arts and religion as the guide and expression of man’s fearless quest for truth. Sir Richard Arman Gregory
• In science it is a service of the highest merit to seek out those fragmentary truths attained by the ancients, and to develop them further. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Science is truth with her wings clipped. Austin O’Malley
• There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. Charles Pierce
• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Oscar Wilde
• Science is Truth. Don’t be misled by fact. Finagle’s Creed
• The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist’s discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer’s frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrandt nude differs from a nude by Manet. Arthur Koestler
• Science actually does have something useful to offer religion: the ability to accept multiple representations of a single truth. In science, the same problem can be solved in different, but complementary, ways. Bernard Haisch
• Every scientific truth goes through three states: first people say it conflicts with the Bible; next they say it has been discovered before; lastly they say they always believed it. Louis Agassiz
• Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. Karl Marx
• The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones. Robert M. Pirsig
• The real truth about a lot of life’s mysteries can be explained by science but people don’t want to get in bed with science because it’s cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama. David Duchovny

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Spirituality can reveal truth

• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. Albert Schweitzer
• When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry. Deepak Chopra
• Spiritual truth should never be sold – those who sell it injure themselves spiritually. Peace Pilgrim
• The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself. Nhat Hanh
• By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. Aberjhani
• Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we’re willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God. Kay Warren
• Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us – without any form or name that we can imagine – that we need the things that religions gave us simply as images and metaphors. But they can be found in a variety of ways. It’s not a question of religious practice. Eugene Green
• I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given. Peace Pilgrim
• The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable. Mahatma Gandhi
• Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It’s impossible. Eckhart Tolle
• Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma. Peace Pilgrim
• The world is starving for a new spiritual truth – a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life. 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
• As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion Russell Brand

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In a spiritual sense, ideology and dogma almost always get in the way of truth

• He attempted to ensure that no “system of thought” would define him, since he believed that no philosophy can fully express the truth. Written about Rajneesh
• Dogmas–religious, political, scientific–arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of “I know.” Eckhart Tolle
• The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. Pema Chodron
• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Joseph Campbell
• A dogma will thrive in soil where the truth could not get root. Lemuel K. Washburn
• Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Kahlil Gibran
• Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. Mary Augusta Ward
• Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. P. Yohannan
• Dogma is often the corruption of someone else’s spiritual experience. Belief systems are often the enemy of the very spiritual truths they supposedly uphold. Most religious beliefs are not merely the foe of reason, of science.  They are the enemy of God; not the man-made tyrant in the sky, but the very source of life, love, and truth. They are the enemy of spiritual understanding that would otherwise flow through us like the blood that circulates through our veins.   Dogmatic presuppositions, drummed into our heads from infancy are like security blankets that shroud us in relative ignorance, and chain us to our beast-like tendencies.  We are capable of much more.  So much more.  Beau Porden
• The Buddha spoke gently, “Once a person is caught by belief in a doctrine, one loses all one’s feedom. When one becomes dogmatic, that person believes his or her doctrine is the only truth and that all other doctrines are heresy. Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow views.  They can extend endlessly, wasting precious time and sometimes even leading to war.  Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.  Bound to narrow views, one becomes so entangled that it is no longer possible to let the door of truth open.  Thich Nhat Hanh

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Scientific and spiritual truth can be complementary

• True science, so far from being an enemy to religious truth, will always stand as the mediator in the ever-pending conflict between religious faith and human reason. S. West
• As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance. Horace Mann
• Science and religion, religion and science, put it as I may, they are two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two, focusing together, reveal the truth. Pearl Buck
• What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind? Wade Davis

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Science’s pursues objective truth whereas spirituality explores subjective truth

• We ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, and poetry with subjective feelings. Hence we conclude that if religion does indeed deal with objective truths, it ought to adopt the same criteria of truth as science. But I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far. Niels Bohr

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Philosophy can reveal truth

• Philosophy is the science which considers truth. Aristotle
• The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. Thomas Aquinas
• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe
• Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact… not truth. If it’s truth you’re looking for, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is right down the hall. Indiana Jones and the Last crusade
• Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery. Bertrand Russell
• The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. … Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. Karl Jaspers
• Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science. Anaxagoras
• Philosophy … must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth. Theodor W. Adorno
• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy. Plato
• Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam. Austin O’Malley
• Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. Baruch Spinoza
• Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning. Alfred North Whitehead
• Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth. Edward Schwartz
• The conception of a new truth, or a new philosophy, must, for a long time, precede its illustration by open argument. Men, in fact, will feel a truth, or a principle, long before they reduce it to speculation; and will gradually grow to think upon it, long before they develop their discoveries by discussion. The earth will thus, as it were, be prepared for the plant before the seed is sown. William Gilmore Simms
• The true philosopher is a brave spirit; dauntless to discover, and bold to declare the truth at all hazard. He feels the inner constraint of his messages, and, as a prophet to his day and generation, he must needs speak, though the whole world cry to him, silence. John Grier Hibben
• Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one’s own way to the highest, to one’s own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one’s ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication. Algernon Black

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Dedicate yourself to a search for truth

• Dedicate one’s life to truth. Juvenal
• The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles. Noam Chomsky
• Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it. Peace Pilgrim

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In the search for truth, be prepared to look past appearances for the senses can deceive

• Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,’ said his cousin. ‘But we seem to have no other. Ivy Compton-Burnett
• If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life. Eugene Burger
• The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions. Blaise Pascal
• The senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood. David Hume

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In the search for truth, be prepared to look past matter…

• There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error. Mary Baker Eddy

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…for truth is not matter but the awareness in which our perceptions of the world appear

• Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth. Ramana Maharshi
• The only thing that is true about thoughts is the awareness in which they are known and with which they are made. Rupert Spira

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In your search for truth, be prepared to lose your illusions

• Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne
• Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche
• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James
• Official truths are often powerful illusions. John Pilger
• If anyone can show me, and convince me, that I have acted or thought in error, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, and no one was ever injured by the truth. But people injure themselves if they live with self- deception and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
• Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. Albert Camus
• Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. George R.R. Martin

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To get rid of all your illusions is for the truth to stand revealed

• Truth stands forth of its own when the obstacles are removed. David R. Hawkins
• Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. Adyashanti
• Get rid of all of your illusions and what’s left is the truth. You don’t find truth as much as you stumble upon it when you have cast away your illusions. Adyashanti
• Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind’s vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth. David R. Hawkins

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Your truth lies within you

• All souls can find the truth within. Eileen Caddy
• If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. Kabir
• Be a light unto yourself. Gautama Buddha
• The greatest things in life – truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they’re all free. Yanni
• Listen to your own truth. Ram Dass
• Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. James Allen
• Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows. Dan Brown
• The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. Eckhart Tolle
• There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. Neale Donald Walsch
• You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed. Barry Long
• 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
• To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. A.H. Almaas
• Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized. Rajneesh
• Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness. Robert Browning
• 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
• When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. Dogen
• If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dōgen
• Every great teacher since the beginning of time has said to look within and find the truth, for the truth of what we really are will set us free. David R. Hawkins

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Believe as true only what resonates deep within you  

• When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. Eckhart Tolle
• 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
• You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking, “Is this true for me?” Brian Tracy
• We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal

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Find inner truth beyond the mind through the practice of stillness

• It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. T. Jong
• Those who justify themselves do not convince. To know truth one must get rid of knowledge; nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness. Lao Tzu
• Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you. Kabir
• If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth:  Listen to the secret sound,  the real sound,  which is inside you.  Kabir
• In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind. Vivian Amis
• In talking about the Truth, you (the ego) must cease to talk, and allow it (Truth or the real Self) to talk or express itself in its own language. Atmananda Krishna Menon
• Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own….Stand still, be quiet. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• When the mind is restless, you know very little of reality. When the mind is quiet, you know all reality. Swami Ashokananda
• Why is silence the greatest teacher? Because real truth never speaks. What would be the point? Truth simply is and so does not need to be reminded of this. On the other hand, illusion cannot be convinced for it doesn’t actually exist except as a thought, belief or concept. Michael Jeffreys

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Truth needs to be discovered for yourself

• Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own. John Ruskin
• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman
• A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience. Rajneesh
• Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation. Frederick Lenz

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Truth is often a paradox

• Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true. Ram Dass
• The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr
• When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth. John Emerich
• The words of truth are always paradoxical. Lao Tzu
• There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth, because its opposite is falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth. Niels Bohr
• Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. Elbert Hubbard
• I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. George Bataille
• The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. Tom Stoppard
• All truths are but partial truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled. Summum commandment
• Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things. Karl Marx
• The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it’s right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her. Gina Barreca

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Truth can often be strange

• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. William Randolph
• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
• It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain
• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. Daniel Webster
• Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble. Dean Koontz

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All great truth is ridiculed at first

• All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw
• All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

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Truth is bigger than any one particular religion

• I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God’s and everything in it. Rob Bell

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In the pursuit of truth, we can remain children

• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a child playing on the seashore while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

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Perceiving truths can add immensely to our lives

• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
• Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. Criss Jami
• Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. Horace Mann
• In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth we do become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. William Lloyd Garrison
• Truth is complete in itself. Truth has a strong foundation in itself. It is bold, it has no fears. It has no limit of space or time. It is a fearless, free bird in the sky. It does not care for status. It is wealth in itself. Truth stands even when there is no public support. Sivananda
• What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth. So that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to ones’ life and will hopefully touch others as well. This is art in its highest form. These moments of enlightenment are what I continue to live for. Michael Jackson.
• Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind. Rabindranath Tagore

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Seeking the truth will set you free

• The truth shall set you free. Bible  
• Chase after truth like hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. Clarence Darrow
• The pursuit of truth shall set you free – even if you never catch up with it. Clarence Darrow
• The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Herbert Agar
• The truth will set you free. But before it does, it might make you angry.  Jerry Joiner
• The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. David Foster Wallace
• The Truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad, also. Felix Adler
• The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana
• Conscious awareness is the source of our healing…Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process. Marianne Williamson
• The best mind-altering drug is truth. Lily Tomlin
• The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will. Ken Wilber
• 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

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Truth brings peace

• When the realization is deep, your whole being is dancing.  Zen saying
• Truth brings peace, whereas falsehood brings fear. David R. Hawkins
• That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. Rumi
• Spiritual truth, then, is universally true and without variation through time or place. It always brings peace, harmony, accord, love, compassion, and mercy. Truth can be identified by these qualities. All else is the invention of the ego. David R. Hawkins
• Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.  Khalil Gibran
• Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth. Gautama Buddha
• Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved…. A voice has been calling out: “What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you… Prem Rawat

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That which brings fear is never true

• Freedom of mind is needed for the reception of truth; terror hopelessly kills it. Rabindranath Tagore
• One basic truth that is of inestimable value and usefulness is the dictum that all fear is fallacious and not based on truth. David R. Hawkins
• Truth is … a fearless, free bird in the sky. Sivananda

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Truth brings joy

• In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin. Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing will satisfy you until you know truth for yourself. Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
• Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover. Rabindranath Tagore

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Truth brings strength, not weakness

• And here is the test of truth: anything that makes you weak, physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison, there is no life in it – it cannot be true. Swami Vivekananda
• Force is based on falsehood; power is based solely on truth. David R. Hawkins
• Truth is enlightening and invigorating. It is truth alone that gives strength. Truth alone gives life, and nothing but going towards reality will make us strong, and none will reach truth until they are strong. Strength, therefore, is the one thing that we want. Strengthening is the medicine which the poor must have when tyrannised over by the rich. Strength is the medicine that the ignorant must have when oppressed by the learned; and it is the medicine that sinners must have when tyrannised over by other sinners. Swami Vivekananda

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Truth raises our level of consciousness

• We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down. Tulsi

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Truth alleviates suffering   

• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• If one can actually revert to the truth, then a great deal of one’s suffering can be erased– because a great deal of one’s suffering is based on sheer lies. D.Laing
• It’s good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you’re confused, that you’re in a lie. Byron Katie

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To search for and discover truth is not end. We must then live it.

• Live your own truth. Oprah Winfrey
• Live a life of truth. Ming-Dao Deng
• I can only live in my truth. Octavia Spencer
• Tell the truth and live the truth. Waris Dirie
• You must emulate the truth you exhort. Johnny Hunt
• Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard
• A person’s looking for a simple truth to live by. Tom Robbins
• If you live your life in truth, the truth will out. John Astin
• Live the truth and everything else will fall into place. John Avery
• However difficult, however scary, I had to live my truth. Michael Hyatt
• Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say. Neem Karoli Baba
• It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. Cassandra Clare
• For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. George Armstrong Custer
• Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. Archibald MacLeish
• The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth. Matthew Henry
• Live your own truth and it won’t matter how many lies they tell about you. Tony Gaskins
• It’s hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white. Gregg Allman
• Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither. Marcus Aurelius
• The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode. Bob Dylan
• As you get older, life gets harder if you’re not applying spiritual truths. Marianne Williamson
• To live in alignment with your Spirit is to live your truth and build your life upon it. Sonia Choquette
• Live authentically. Live your truth. And if you love me for anything, love me because… – Neale Donald Walsch
• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James
• The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect. T. Suzuki
• I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are. Anita Moorjani
• We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. Agnes Meyer Driscoll
• The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul Deepak Chopra

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Act on the truth by living it and practicing it…

• Truth exists only for each individual when he or she produces it through his or her actions. Soren Kierkegaard
• Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. Mira Nair
• The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct and of honor. Bryant Hill
• When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it. Elbert Hubbard
• Practice the truth you hear and read about, so that it is not just an idea but a conviction born of experience. If reading books on theology satisfies your desire for God, you have not grasped the purpose of religion. Do not settle for intellectual satisfaction about truth. Convert truth into experience, and you will know God through your own Self-realization. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Stand up men and women, dare to believe in the truth, dare to practice the truth! Swami Vivekananda
• 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
• Unlived truth is our greatest problem. D.L. Moody

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… especially through the practice of love and kindness for love is indisputably truth

• If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body. David Deida
• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore
• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene

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In a spiritual sense, the world contains only relative truths that point to absolute truth

• Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• One’s sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. Ken Wilber
• The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. Ken Wilber
• There is only one absolute truth; all the rest are semi-facts spawned from the artefacts of limited perception and positionally. David R. Hawkins
• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche
• These teachings are only a finger pointing to the Noble wisdom…. They are intended for the consideration and guidance of the discriminating minds of all people, but they are not the Truth itself, which can only be self-realized within one’s own deepest consciousness. Lankavatara Sutra
• Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore

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The mind is most limited in its ability to perceive absolute truth

• Mind is limited in its view. Nothing the mind knows is absolutely true. Nothing it knows is reliable.  Rupert Spira
• Humility is merely the truthful acknowledgment of the actual fact that the ego/mind, by virtue of its structure and design, is intrinsically incapable of being able to differentiate truth from falsehood. David R. Hawkins
• I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine. Neale Donald Walsch
• It can be seen that it is futile to try to find truth via the mind. (The benefit of the way of the heart, or Unconditional Love, is that it bypasses many of the traps and quagmires of the so-called mind.) David R. Hawkins
• The Truth cannot be grasped by the mind. Adyashanti
• The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: “All things are intrinsically one.” That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point. Eckhart Tolle
• Truth begins where thought ends. Michael Jeffreys
• Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Absolute truth cannot be found or articulated in words or concepts

• The truth which can be spoken is not the true truth. Lao Tzu
• Those who justify themselves do not convince. To know truth one must get rid of knowledge; nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness. Lao Tzu
• Trying to find the Truth through words and speech is like putting your head in a bowl of glue. Yuan Wu
• The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. Adyashanti
• 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
• Beware of language, because it is often a great cheat. Peter Mere Latham
• Jejune and barren speculations may unfold the plicatures of Truth’s garment, but they cannot discover her lovely face. John Smith
• The more exacting our words, the further from the Truth we stray, which is why poetry is generally more precise about human experience than is prose, and why music can be said to be even more exact. Roger Stephens
• Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described and it cannot be explained. A Course in Miracles
• The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way. Bodhidharma
• Dogmas–religious, political, scientific–arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of “I know.” Eckhart Tolle
• I have a thousand brilliant lies for the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies for the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known from words; if you think that the Sun and the Ocean can an pass through that tiny opening called the mouth, someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly laughing now!  Hafez
• It is an illusory pursuit to look to concepts and ideas in order to find truth, to find peace, to find that which will liberate us. Adyashanti
• Knowing my thoughts are not the Truth helps me to be still, not paying attention to thoughts. Adyashanti
• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing. In fact, you place so little value on experience that when what your experience of God differs from what you’ve heard of God, you automatically discard the experience and own the words, when it should be just the other way around. Neale Donald Walsch
• No philosophy can fully express the truth. Rajneesh

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Absolute truth exists beyond our physical world of apparent matter and therefore transcends science

• There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and grade each in its proper position along the line joining absolute truth and absolute error. Henry Augustus Rowland

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Relative truth must always be couched in human terms

• To make sense to us as physical creatures, any ‘truth’ must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn’t understand it. Jane Roberts

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A realisation of absolute truth (a knowing or gnosis) often emerges in states of deep and expansive awareness and love

• And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity. Ken Wilber
• As my consciousness expands, my whole being changes and I vibrate at a higher frequency. Inner truths are perceived. Veils are lifted. I see with new eyes. John Kehoe
• Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrender of the mind’s vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes freer and more open to the light of Truth. David R. Hawkins
• Absolute truth is a state of consciousness that brings about an indisputable knowing beyond the mind. Anthony Lambert
• Finding the Truth is aloneness as all shared beliefs and concepts fall away. Adyashanti
• Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings Swami Vivekananda

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Truth is dependent on one’s level of consciousness

• Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low-level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• The truth of each level of consciousness is self-verifying in that each level has its native range of perception, which confirms what’s already believed to be true. David R. Hawkins
• What appears as an important and exciting piece of information from the perspective of one level of consciousness might be boring or even repulsive at another level. Truth is subjective, and that can be frightening. David R. Hawkins
• A statement may be true at a high level of understanding but be incomprehensible to the average mind. Its value may therefore be corrupted when the statement is distorted by the limitations of the listener. David R. Hawkins
• Consciousness level 200 is critical because it demarcates truth from falsehood. David R. Hawkins
• Truth is the consequence of not only content but also of context. David R. Hawkins
• What appears as an important and exciting piece of information from the perspective of one level might be boring or even repulsive at another level. Truth is subjective, and that can be frightening. David R. Hawkins

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In a spiritual context, seeking truth too ardently can be counter-productive as it contracts awareness

• Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen and you need not search for truth; truth will find you. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it. Dogen
• The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is – and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Indeed we ARE that which we are looking for, when our seeking ceases….What then prevents us from seeing this simple truth? Nothing but the misconception that ‘we’ can do something about it. Ramesh Balsekar
• It is helpful to remember that neither Truth nor Enlightenment is something to be found, sought, acquired, gained, or possessed. That which is the Infinite Presence is always present and its realization occurs of itself when the obstacles to that realization are removed. David R. Hawkins
• Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now. Enza Vita
• Truth cannot be sought – one can simply be receptive, that´s all. One can open the doors and wait. One can say only this much, “If the divine guest comes, you will be received, welcomed. Rajneesh
• Do not seek for the truth, only stop having an opinion. Seng Ts’an
• The separate self can never discover the truth – in the end, the truth just awakens to itself through you. Stephan Bodian
• The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. Adyashanti
• To seek something, you must have at least some vague idea or image of what it is you are seeking. But ultimate truth is not an idea or an image or something attained anew. So, to seek truth as something objective is a waste of time and energy. Truth can’t be found by seeking it, simply because truth is what you are. Adyashanti

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Awareness (the fact I am aware of being aware) is the only indisputably truth

• Make no mistake: whatever I say—whatever its impact—is a concept. It is not the truth. A concept is something that someone may accept and someone may not. The Truth is that which no one can deny. And therefore the only Truth, in phenomenality, is ‘I AM’—the impersonal awareness of being. On this basis, whatever any sage has ever said, whatever any scripture of any religion says is a concept. Ramesh Balsekar

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It follows that awareness (consciousness) is the ultimate truth and reality

• What is the ultimate truth? There is and can be nothing “outside” awareness. Awareness is Everything. Conversely, Everything is an awareness in it’s own right – unique and individual. Peter Wilberg
• When we try to think of Consciousness, it is like looking into a black hole. It is not even black. The mind simply cannot go there. It cannot go to that objectless place because the mind is itself an object. As the mind tries to turn itself towards Consciousness, it dissolves.  Its dissolution is the revelation of Presence, the revelation of that in which thought dissolves.  The mind does not find Truth. It does not find Reality. It is dissolved in it.  Rupert Spira

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Awareness is our true nature and therefore, truth is what we are

• The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. The very Being that you are is Truth.  Eckhart Tolle
• If you want to write the truth, you must write about yourself. I am the only real truth I know. Jean Rhys
• Indeed we are running away all the time to avoid coming face to face with our real selves, and we barter the truth for trifles. Reginald French
• All of these qualities of the body, mind, and world are temporary and therefore can’t be considered real in the truest sense. Only the ever-present, unchanging element of our being can be considered real. Rupert Spira
• On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual’s mind, you perceive all minds. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the Truth. Huangbo Xiyun
• Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it. Dogen
• When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. Dogen
• You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images. A Course In Miracles
• You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey
• Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are. Gangaji
• Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. Eckhart Tolle
• The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything. Gangaji
• The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is consciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony. Gangaji
• When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within. Eckhart Tolle

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The truth of what we are can only be known experientially, realised within

• The truth indeed has never been preached by the Buddha, seeing that one has to realize it within oneself. Sutralamkara
• Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it. Adyashanti
• Words and concepts can be signposts to truth but they cannot encapsulate it. For spiritual truth is a state of being; a high state of consciousness in which a direct knowing arises. Truth is a direct experience. Anthony Lambert
• Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described, and it cannot be explained. A Course in Miracles
• Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization. Paramahansa Yogananda
• We should not believe the story that the mind tells us about what and where the body is. We should rely only on the facts of our experience, and that means this current experience. That is the test of Reality, of Truth. Rupert Spira
• When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self- definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfillment: the truth of who you are. Gangaji

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Truth is what is here now in the form of one’s awareness

• Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true. A Course in Miracles
• What is not true does not exist in this moment. Bert McCoy
• 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
• All thoughts achieve the same outcome. They take you out of the truth of life, out of the present moment, and into a world of illusion. Leonard Jacobson
• The only truth which is not a concept is the sense of presence, here and now. ‘I am,’ not ‘I am Joe or Jane.’ This impersonal sense of presence in the present moment is the only truth. Ramesh Balsekar

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Awareness and God are synonymous and all that is absolutely true

• The devotee bent on liberation understands that all learning pertaining to the phenomenal worlds is partial, uncertain, relative, and unsatisfying. Realization of God is the only true, permanent, and absolute knowledge. Paramahansa Yogananda
• I believe in a spiritual world – not as anything separate from this world – but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God. Rabindranath Tagore
• What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. Adi Shankara
• Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven because that is where the laws of God operate truly, and they can operate only truly since they are the laws of Truth. But seek this only because you can find nothing else. There is nothing else. God is all in all in a very literal sense.  All being is in Him who is all Being.  You are therefore in Him since your being is His.  A Course in Miracles
• In the beginning was only Being, One without a second. Out of himself he brought forth the cosmos And entered into everything in it. There is nothing that does not come from him. Of everything he is the inmost Self. He is the truth; he is the Self supreme. You are that, Shvetaketu; you are that. The Upanishad

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The truth is that all is awareness or consciousness.  All is God.  All is one.

• But in the end spirituality is not about watching the breath. It’s about waking up from the dream of separateness to the truth of unity. Adyashanti
• “Truth is one,” one hymn proclaims, “though the wise call it by many names.” Eknath Easwaran
• ‘Who am I?’ The answer is ‘I am God’. The body comes and goes, but the Atma is permanent. The body has birth and death, but the spirit does not have any of these. You reach the stage where you say, ‘I am God’, but even there, there is duality, ‘God and I’. That is not the full Truth. When we breathe, the breath makes the sound of ‘So-Hum’, ‘He am I’. There is still the body consciousness, the ‘I’. But in deep sleep, the declaration of ‘He’ and ‘I’ falls away and only ‘0’ and ‘M’ remain, ‘Om’; there is only the One. Sathya Sai Baba
• Even by the mind this truth is to be learned: There are not many, but only ONE. The Upanishads
• From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth. Geoffrey Hodson
• If you hold to multiplicity, you are with the world; and if you hold to the Unity, you are with the Truth …. Our names are but names for God; at the same time our individual selves are His shadow. He is at once our identity and not our identity … Consider! Ibn ‘Arabi
• It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all. Rudolf Steiner
• Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, the ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.  Dogen
• The most basic truth of life: One Being is creating all of this – all of these different expressions of life. There’s only one Being here, and not only are you it but everyone else is it. Let that sink in a moment. Gina Lake
• The multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind. Tim Freke
• Unity Consciousness is the experience of the 7 billion plus people on the planet being moved by the same force, which is God. It is the awareness to see what we really are: One Living Being. However, this is a truth that really can’t be explained with words; the minute you say it, it is no longer truth. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• What, then, is the heart of the highest truth, The core of knowledge, the wisdom supreme? It is, “I am the Self, the formless One; By my very nature, I am pervading all.” The Avadhuta Gita

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The truth is that God is not separate from who we are

• The illumined man knows this truth of life. For him the universe is his garment And the Lord not separate from himself. The Upanishad
• Know Him as both particularized and unparticularized, and be established in Truth. Be in a state of unity if you wish, or be in a state of separation if you wish; if the Totality reveals Itself to you, you will attain the crown of victory. Ibn ‘Arabi
• The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul. Hafez
• The Truth is we are all one. Oneness. It’s not a tiny me in an vast universe, but the universe all in me. Adyashanti
• The truth of nonduality—that the many is the One and that the One is ultimately who we always are. Andrew Cohen
• We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed. Rabindranath Tagore
• When I stood in my first cause, I ‘then had no ‘God,’ and then I was my own cause. I wanted nothing, I longed for nothing, for I was empty Being and the only truth in which I rejoiced was in the knowledge of my Self. Then it was my Self I wanted and nothing else. What I wanted I was, and what I was I wanted and so I stood empty of God and everything. Meister Eckhart
• When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speak these words as their own, the words become meaningless. Meher Baba

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• I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy Ashleigh Brilliant
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein
• Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy Fran Lebowitz

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• We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence.” There is a “tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think that the truth is given by consent or by what we want. The question arises: does “the” truth really exist? What is “the” truth? Can we know it? Can we find it? Pope Francis

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