#ruth

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#awakening #breath #buddhism #christianity #community

Few things are more deceptive than memories. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#philosophy #truth #deception

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#truth #integrity

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. ↗

— William Faulkner

#truth #journalism

Some people say—not to my face, mind you—that I’m a cowardly son of a bitch. And that is simply not true. My mom is not a bitch.
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— Jarod Kintz

#coward #cowardly #gossip #mom #mother

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conflict #confusion #debate #definition #disagreement

In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird. ↗

— George Orwell

#truth #communism

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do. ↗

— Buddha Gotama

#deception #evil #lies #truth #deception

Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#knowledge #love #truth #wisdom #anger

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#history #humanity #memory #narrative #reality