It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat.

More Egyptian Proverbs

• People bring about their own undoing through their tongues.
• The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition.
• For knowledge, you should know that peace is an indispensable condition of getting it.
• Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.
• Your body is the temple of knowledge.
• If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.
• If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
• The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother.
• The first concerning the ‘secrets’: all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys.
• Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.
• A man’s heart is his own Neter.
• It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.
• If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge.
• For every joy there is a price to be paid.
• If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple’s submission is slavery ; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement.
• The second concerning the ‘way’: the seeker has need of a Master to guide him and lift him up when he falls, to lead him back to the right way when he strays.
• No discussion can throw light if it wanders from the real point.
• The nut doesn’t reveal the tree it contains.
• Listen to your conviction, even if they seem absurd to your reason.
• Not the greatest Master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself he must experience each stage of developing consciousness. Therefore he will know nothing for which he is not ripe.
• A man can’t be judge of his neighbor’ intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor’s.
• To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching.
• A house has the character of the man who lives in it.
• Physical consciousness is indispensable for the achievement of knowledge.
• Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.
• The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature.
• Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.