Gene Ruyle > Quotes

“A half truth is much worse than a whole lie because it makes it even harder to tell the difference between the two.”
― Gene Ruyle

“Only those who leave home ever really find it.”
― Gene Ruyle, The Stuff of a Lifetime: Self, Sense, Soul, and Spirit in Human Experience

“Shadows show the direction in which the light lies, but you have to travel to make it to where it is.”
― Gene Ruyle

“Most people miss so much of what they are, but the tragedy is they miss it without knowing that they missed it.”
― Gene Ruyle

“To seek the truth while living a lie is to fool oneself . . . and a complete waste of time.”
― Gene Ruyle

“Those who spend most of the time talking about their relationship don't have one anymore.”
― Gene Ruyle

“No human being ever needs to tell another what it's like to be alone.”
― Gene Ruyle

“The greater power is not that which ushers in the new, but that able to make even the old new once more.”
― Gene Ruyle

“The truly free aren't those busily doing what they want, but those already engaged in growing into all they want to become. What the first have will largely be over by the day's end, while what the second possess will have grown into even more by tomorrow morning -- and every morning thereafter.”
― Gene Ruyle

“Of the countless realities there are, the four greatest I know are these: God, or the holy; the universe; life; and human experience. The significance of the latter is that for all human beings, the first three can be known only through it.”
― Gene Ruyle