The Truth Quotes

Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti

I'd much rather have a brain of my own than be popular.

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

It’s human nature to view life from our own reality.This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.

Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.

...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.

Only [God] can convict nonbelievers of their sins

The teachings of the Saviour

What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.

I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good.

You’re not broken, Dylan. I know you’re not.

Sometimes, maybe we don’t know exactly what we have until someone shows us.

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

It is vital to see not only what Christianity asserts, but where its precepts came from – how they evolved from primitive, superstitious metaphysical claims into “Gospel Truth”.

The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.

That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.

The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.

If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.

I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being.

Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.

The moon shines like a freshly unwrapped cheese ball at the holidays.”-William Harrison in Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

So this is love:the Sculptor’s chisel.And stone, which in its whole lifedoes not utter a single word, suddenly sings.

As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience.

I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.

My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.

You are my treasure.

Believe that there are no limits. Manifest your best reality.

Perhaps the gift you seek already resides within you awaiting the day you choose to unwrap it.

I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don't get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember this next time.

An assumption is the joke

... Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.

If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.

Even post true death memories carried on the waves of universal energy will defy the faux perception of finality.

You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key.

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.