Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.
More Egyptian Proverbs
Leave him in error who loves his error.
By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.
Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source.
To know means to record in one’s memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself.
If you would build something solid, don’t work with wind: always look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable… yourself.
Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.
True sages are those who give what they have, without meanness and without secret!
Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.
Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.
As to deserving, know that the gift of heaven is free; this gift of Knowledge is so great that no effort whatever could hope to ‘deserve’ it.
Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.
Organization is impossible unless those who know the laws of harmony lay the foundation.
Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.
All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature.
The body is the house of god. That is why it is said, “Man know yourself.”
If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end.
One foot isn’t enough to walk with.
True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.
The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree…. The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky.
Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.
The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.
An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question.
What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious for me alone: if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never revelation.
Maat, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence.
When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.
Altruism is the mark of a superior being.
Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.