truth

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
- Blaise Pascal

What's the point of talking to anyone if you don't tell it like it is?
- John Krakauer, author of Into The Wild

I passed a thousand signs
looking for my own name.
- Johnny Cash, The Wanderer

To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool.
- Fernando Pessoa

We get into trouble in the spirit when we give up any of these: when beauty turns into sentimentality or propaganda, when architecture and the other arts unconscious or considered secondary, when we forget the importance of ongoing, lifelong learning in all areas as support for the spiritual life, and especially when we make spiritual practice the project of creating a certain kind of self.
- Thomas Moore

Consciousness is a sign that we haven't yet learned to live from the soul.
- Thomas Moore

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
- Ghandi

Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
- Harriet Rubin