The plant reveals what is in the seed.

More Egyptian Proverbs

• Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.
• Understanding develops by degrees.
• Growth in consciousness doesn’t depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge.
• A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he deserves to learn from you.
• A phenomenon always arises from the interaction of complementary. If you want something look for the complement that will elicit it. Seth causes Horus. Horus redeems Seth.
• The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.
• An answer if profitable in proportion to the intensity of the quest.
• There grows no wheat where there is no grain.
• What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.
• The plant reveals what is in the seed.
• Seek peacefully, you will find.
• The way of knowledge is narrow.
• Every man must act in the rhythm of his time… such is wisdom.
• If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.
• It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat.
• You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of Maat.
• In every vital activity it is the path that matters.
• Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.
• Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.
• Always watch and follow nature.
• Man, know yourself and you shalt know the gods.
• Judge by cause, not by effect.
• The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.
• Social good is what brings peace to family and society.
• We mustn’t confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.
• Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.
• People bring about their own undoing through their tongues.