“seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
3
73 poems (1963)
"Fifth Talk in Bombay 1950 (12 March 1950) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=352&chid=4672&w=%22Truth+is+not+something+in+the+distance%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 500312, The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 134 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The moment you have a path to truth, you divide it, because the path is exclusive; and what is exclusive at the very beginning will end in exclusiveness. The man who is following a path can never know truth because he is living in exclusiveness; his means are exclusive, and the means are the end, are not separate from the end. If the means are exclusive, the end is also exclusive. So there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.
“seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
3
73 poems (1963)
“If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.”
Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953) American philosopher
Antonio Machado book Kampos di Kastilia
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar.
"Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
“Finding your path is part of your path.”
Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
“Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing.”
Bruce Lee book Tao of Jeet Kune Do
This statement probably derives from a famous one of Jiddu Krishnamurti: "Truth is a pathless land."
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
Context: Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Accord de différentes loix de la nature qui avoient jusqu’ici paru incompatibles (1744)
Thich Nhat Tu (1969) Vietnamese philosopher
Buddhist Socteriological Ethics: A Study of the Buddha’s Central Teachings (1999)