#rut

The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222) ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#home

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. ↗

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spiritual #truth #inspirational

Truth is in all, But love is all. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#truth #inspirational

I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #truth #wisdom #death

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#love

But by the grace of God, I am what I am 1 Corinthians 15:10 ↗

— Anonymous

#love #motivation #self #truth #love

But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that. ↗

— Sophie Jordan

#jacinda-jones #love #sophie-jordan #sweet #will-and-jacinda

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#formula #love #loving-ways #negotiate #relationships

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say. —Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#frederick-weisel #love #teller #truth #weisel

In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to conform to a reality that doesn’t fit your current beliefs, and doesn’t feel 120% happy? Do you love truth enough to continue seeking even when it hurts, when it reveals aspects of yourself (or human society, or the universe) that are shocking, complex and disturbing, or humbling, glorious and amazing – or even, when truth is far beyond human mind itself? Just how much do we love truth? It’s a good question to ask ourselves, I think. ↗

— Scott Mandelker

#love