Quotes about Authenticity

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

This is how one ought to see, I repeated yet again. And I might have added, These are the sort of things one ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.

If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Don't call us saints, we don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

I'll be who I am and say what I feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind.

Don't show your flaws.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.