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"Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view."
"To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted."
"At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us."
"When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth."
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai."
"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."
"The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain"
"The mind has to be empty to see clearly."
"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie."
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
"Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that."
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
"The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived."
"The future is purchased by the present."
"Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth."
"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem."
"He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with respect and attention. His words will be remembered, for they will be good and true. When one who is established in truth prays with a pure heart, then things he really needs come to him when they are really needed: he does not have to run after them. The man firmly established in truth gets the fruit of his actions without apparently doing anything. God, the source of all truth, supplies his needs and looks after his welfare."
"It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth."
