Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.


Ryōkan

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places! Look for delusion and truth in the bottom ...
RYOKAN
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own bea...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI
WHAT IS TRUTH?

Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM
My son, do not forget my teaching,
But let your heart keep my commandments;
For l...
ANONYMOUS
I roam the streets, silent and still,
I look for You, in each and everything.
I have come ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON
Tell me a truth, Senna.“
“I don’t know how.”
“Then tell me a lie.”
“I d...
TARRYN FISHER
REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH

Where you find Truth
Is where you find your reflection
And...
SUZY KASSEM
Once

...Why
...lie?
...when
...truth is
...the easier path
ELLEN HOPKINS
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always wit...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,
you will find that there are many wis...
TOBA BETA
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears:
L...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you redden your cheeks
and blac...
KAMAND KOJOURI
WONDERLAND

It is a person's unquenchable thirst for wonder
That sets them on their i...
SUZY KASSEM
But O the truth, the truth. The
many eyes
That look on it! The diverse things
they see.
GEORGE MEREDITH
Do not go to my grave.
Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
an...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Why do you lie" I ask her.
"To block the truth."
Fair enough.
Naomi goes on. "Where d...
RACHEL COHN
Why are you being so mean?"
"Friends tell friends the truth."
"yeah, but not to hurt, to h...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
If you want the truth about being different,
all you have to do is look in the mirror.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Stages



As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every ...
HERMANN HESSE
We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give.
Too much change is re...
LUCY H. PEARCE
YOU HIDE YOUR UGLY TRUTH SO BEAUTIFULLY
AND WHEN YOU REVEAL IT TO THE WORLD
YOU'RE EVEN M...
QWANA M. "BABYGIRL" REYNOLDS-FRASIER
so your father told you once
that you were his princess
you won't see the castle
you ...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS
In the search for truth,
what you believe matters less
than how you believe.
ERIC MICHA'EL LEVENTHAL
BLACK AND WHITE


I was born into
A religion of Light,
But with so many oth...
SUZY KASSEM
Dreaming at the Ballet"

The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anyth...
JACK GILBERT
Eyes blinded by the fog of things
cannot see truth.
Ears deafened by the din of things
HAROLD BELL WRIGHT
The truth is in the heart;
out there is true darkness.
TOBA BETA
Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clingin...
PAUL R. FLEISCHMAN
Believe me when I say:
'Out of all those around,
she’s the best locksmith in town.' KAMAND KOJOURI
Because like the depths of the ocean that calls you home, you will never be easy.

But dar...
JEANETTE LEBLANC
The world you are in –
Is the true hell.
The journey to Truth itself
Is what quicke...
SUZY KASSEM
Smartass Disciple: How the hell do we find the truth ?
Master of Stupidity: Just seek it with h...
TOBA BETA
TRUTH


Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hate...
SUZY KASSEM
In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"

Laughter. A murmur of a...
JOSé EDUARDO AGUALUSA
TRUTH

Whenever you stand up
For your conscience,
Be prepared to be hated
SUZY KASSEM
Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet y...
DEREK WALCOTT
I didn't give up, I walked away
I had enough of accepting actions that were less than I deserve...
NIKKI ROWE
Life is suffering
Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated
Truth is th...
JORDAN B. PETERSON
My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Living things don't all require
light in the same degree. Some of us
make our own light: a...
LOUISE GLüCK
Your eyes are like heavy rain
falling from pregnant clouds.
With one glance, you washed ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Eyes and ears are two.
Lungs and kidneys, too.
I wonder then
why we're born with one<...
KAMAND KOJOURI
Miaow

Consider me.
I sit here like Tiberius,
inscrutable and grand.
I will...
MARK HADDON
Truth is something believed in heart.
Fact is anything happened in realities.
TOBA BETA
You aren't happy," Estela says.
"I can't be happy," I say.
"Look at me, Kenzie."
"I'm...
BETH KEPHART
Who is your favorite character in the series? Or...if that's too hard, why do you like each one and ...
JULIE KAGAWA
Jesus in the Temple of God in Jerusalem

Matthew 21

12: AND JESUS WENT INTO THE...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. I...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
There are people.

There are stories.

The people think they shape the stories, ...
ALAN MOORE
So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ...
NEIL GAIMAN
I know the journey seems so long
You feel you're walking on your own
But there has never...
JEREMY CAMP
The Master's Sacred Knowledge.

Love is the treasure you should seek!

The grea...
ALLAN RUFUS
Why be trapped in time? Why count the days?
Why worry if you are getting older or looking young...
HRISHIKESH AGNIHOTRI
At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the ...
DAN PEARCE
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want you
I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish you were mine
JUSTIN WETCH
If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA
I love you in my very own way.
Like a stone loves the mosses around it
Like a sea loves th...
ARZUM UZUN
Find out what faith is and how you can put it into practice.
Learn how to pray, and do it.
J. GRANT HOWARD
Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?

Green glass, gobl...
HAROLD MONRO
i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA
i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA.
Come back to me.
Where have you gone?
And why so long?
I miss the star below your lip...
KAMAND KOJOURI
NEVER GIVE UP
No matter what is going on
Never give up
Develop the heart
Too muc...
DALAI LAMA XIV
We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we d...
PAT WALSH
It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat
But you know who does that?
Lassie, and s...
JOSS WHEDON
THE NAKED HEART

From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
Poor or...
SUZY KASSEM
and you invented me
and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Amor"

So many days, oh so many days
seeing you so tangible and so close,
how do...
PABLO NERUDA
Don't ever
allow
the disharmony of others
to
become your own

a
m...
THAIIA SENQUETTA
Chains

chains that hold me to the ground
chains that keep me solidly bound
chai...
MUSE
NEVER LIVE A LIE
BECAUSE
"THEY"
WON'T ACCEPT YOUR TRUTH!
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER
You are beholden
To the truth
It is the way
It is the path
It is your destiny KAREN HACKEL
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?

Because all else is temporary, while beauty...
VERA NAZARIAN
Pushed into darkness,
the only way out was
to seek light with the
torch of hope and ...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR
Have you ever
had so much to say
that your mouth closed up tight
struggling to harnes...
ELLEN HOPKINS
THE NAKED HEART


From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
P...
SUZY KASSEM
You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. ROBERT FAGLES
Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how," I breath.
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't...
TARRYN FISHER
The way you're singing in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusion...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker

do you remember
when the earth was just a bab...
MARCUS AMAKER
If we say that we have no sin,
We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
Why then...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER
Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER
But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent a...
ROBERT BURNS
If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN
I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,"
spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
W...
L. FRANK BAUM
If you know something to be true
Say it once
Those who can, will receive it
Only the ...
GREGORY C. WARNER
You can repeat lies of others without hesitation
Because, you don’t have to give justificatio...
SAMMY TOORA
When clouds of pain loom in the sky
When a shadow of sadness flickers by
When a tear finds...
JAVED AKHTAR
To understand what Bloom means, consider this dialogue (based loosely on a real-life exchange) betwe...
FRANCIS J. BECKWITH
Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
E...
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Work is satisfying.

Staying up late until your eyes beg you for sleep, sitting constantly...
VISHAL OSTWAL
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Do not hold your breath for anyone,
Do not wish your lungs to be still,
It may delay the c...
ERIN HANSON
THE THREE LAWS OF ALL

You are never to worship a living soul,
Except for three entit...
SUZY KASSEM
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
W...
RUMI
Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and wher...
JACK JOHNSON

More Ryōkan