L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.