Quotes about Truth

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection....Self rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.