Quotes about Authenticity

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

We are what we pretend to be.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

This is how one ought to see, I repeated yet again. And I might have added, These are the sort of things one ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.

If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.