Chapter 97Truth Is Above Mind

For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood

here is the way Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others. Try only to please the Lord.

Because He alone is the Truth. Each and every one of us, human beings in our physical body, is a coat of falsehood put on the Lord and hiding Him.

As He alone is true to Himself, it is on Him that we must concentrate and not on the coats of falsehood.

* There is only one solution for falsehood:

It is to cure in ourselves all that contradicts in our consciousness the presence of the Divine.

31 December 1972

* Let us offer our falsehood to the Divine so that He may change it to joyous Truth.

* Truth is eternally beyond all that we can think or say of it.

10 December 1954

* Truth cannot be formulated in words, but it can be lived provided one is pure and plastic enough.

* When the gates of true knowledge are crossed, no words are left to express what is known.

* He who has crossed the gates of the true Knowledge has nothing more to say or to teach.

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To come closer to the Truth, you must often accept not to understand.

25 November 1961

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When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets.

Because there is no true right and wrong — the only Truth is the Lord and He remembers everything.

26 January 1963

* Each idea (or system of ideas) is true in its own time and place. But if it tries to be exclusive or to persist even when its time is over, then it ceases to be true.

* If any element of this totality is taken separately and affirmed as the sole truth, however central or comprehensive it may be, it necessarily becomes a falsehood, for then it denies all the rest of the total Truth. This is precisely what constitutes an indisputable dogma, and this is why it is the most dangerous type of falsehood, because each one affirms that it is the sole and exclusive truth. The absolute, infinite, eternal Truth is unthinkable for the mind which can only conceive that which is spatial and temporal, fragmentary and limited. Thus, on the mental plane, the absolute Truth is divided into innumerable fragmentary and contradictory truths which strive in their entirety to reproduce the original Truth as best they can — for each is a truth that attempts to affirm itself as the sole truth, to the exclusion of all the other truths, which, through their innumerable totality, express progressively in the becoming the Infinite, Eternal and Absolute Truth — that is how they deny the total Truth.

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The truth is neither in separation nor in uniformity. The truth is in unity manifesting through diversity.

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