God is Truth, and Truth is God.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but do the prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in the mind, is conscious of the mind; the one who lives in the soul is conscious of the soul. … When people are living in their minds, they are living through the darkness of the night. The moment we rise above our minds and awaken in the light of the soul, we become spiritual. And if a thousand spiritual people speak, they will say the same thing, perhaps in different words but with only one meaning, for they have one and the same vision. This is why spiritual realization is called the Truth. There are many facts but only One Truth. The facts can be put into words but not the Truth, for God is Truth, the soul is Truth, the Real Self of humanity is Truth.
We generally confuse Truth with fact, and we often use the word fact for Truth. When we look at it from the mystic’s point of view we find that words are too intricate ever to explain what is Truth. … Truth is that which cannot be pointed out, because all things that can be compared have their opposite, but neither God nor Truth has an opposite. Names are to point out forms, and words are to distinguish one thing from another, while definitions come from the pairs of opposites or at least from differences. That which is All-Pervading and is in all things and beings, that which every word explains and yet no word can explain, is God and is Truth.
The seekers after Truth go out into the world and find innumerable different sects and religions. They do not know where to start. Then they desire to find out what is hidden under these sects, these different religions, and they begin to seek the object which they wish to gain through wisdom. Wisdom is a veil over Truth, even wisdom cannot be called Truth. God alone is Truth, and it is Truth that is God. And Truth can neither be studied nor taught nor learned; it is to be touched, it is to be realized; and it can be realized by the unfoldment of the heart.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume IX – The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part VI: The Sufi’s Aim in Life )
Truth is One, God is One, Life is One. To me there is no such thing as two. Two is only one plus one.
( from Biography, Autobiography, Journal and Anecdotes, Part I: Biography – Youth, The Sufi Calling )
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
There are just two ways to discuss this matter, the very nature and essence of which is really beyond discussion. From one point of view, the process of apprehension of Truth is in the first place a living heart awakening and growth. Even then the Reality of Completion comes only after the heart is fully awakened, and the self explored. Word, form, thought, symbolism, effect, or explanation can but point to a sort of Neti (“not this”), as the Hindus describe it. That is to say, Truth is depicted as being a Reality that is different from anything and everything which can be depicted.
But from the metaphysical point of view, theosophically expressed, Truth, in the state and stage of Absolute Unity, is All which is called Rupa and Arupa — All that is in name and form and All that is without name and form, a Unity which while being Unity includes every degree and variety of complexity. So it is not only the life above the mind-mesh, it is the realization that this life beyond the mental, called Buddhic, includes also every sort of condition, actual and potential, so that all Heaven and Hell appear as part of one’s being. This cannot be easily discussed, as it is clouded by every process except the highest forms of meditation and contemplation.