"If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out."
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"Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial."
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"Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows."
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"There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth."
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"No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer."
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"There's many a true word spoken in jest."
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"No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation."
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"Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things."
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"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."
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"The flowering of love is meditation."
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"To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is."
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"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."
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"Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything."
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"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
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"Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness."
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"God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready."
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"There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events."
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"The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision."
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"Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear."
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"Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea."
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