James A. Garfield Quotes

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

Tell others about the truth that sets you free.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

The truth will lead me to all.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.