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• The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Truth Is, Found

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.65, Anchor

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• I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Thinking, Spirituality

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

  Bodhidharma

  Truth, Break Through, Understanding

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Lying, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• There is no fundamental difference between one religion and another, because each religion embodies the ultimate Truth. Each religion is right, absolutely right, because each religion conveys the message of Truth in its own way.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Differences, Fundamentals, Way

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• All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

  Laozi

  Action, Ultimate

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• Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Consciousness, Pure

  Ramana Maharshi, C. G. (FRW) Jung (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, Shambhala Pubns

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• Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.

  Zhuangzi

  Mistake, Mean, Men

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• If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Defense, Care

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• A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

  Charles Peguy

  Philosophy, Finals, Causes

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• The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Simple, Truth Is, Natural

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• An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

  George Soros

  Views, People, Divergent

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

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• Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong, choosing the truer so that you can reach to the ultimate truth.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Enlightenment, Ultimate

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• And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Emotion, Remember

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

  Dogen

  Oneness, Meditation, Enlightenment

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• Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

  Plato

  Love Is, Desire, World

  Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Paul Woodruff (1995). “Phaedrus”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth.
  A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Doe, Lunatic Asylums

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• If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

  Chauncey Wright

  Giving, Experience, Research

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.109, A&C Black

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• God is beyond definition. But according to one's own vision or receptivity, one will define God in one's own way. Some will say that God is all Love. Others will say that God is all Power. Each one will see God according to his own necessity, his own receptivity and, finally, according to the way God wants him to see the ultimate Truth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  God, Vision, Definitions

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• My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Conclusion, Organized, Objections

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• Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Fashion, Simple, Men

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.219, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you.

  Anita Moorjani

  Taken, Needs, Holding On

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from May 30, 2013

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• The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is.  They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself.  This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole.  The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth.  It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Evil, Unity

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• The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Doctrine, Way, Tao

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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