Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauRead
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.
The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.
Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
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