Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.

More Egyptian Proverbs

• 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.
• If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.
• The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.
• Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.
• Love is one thing, knowledge is another.
• Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then.
• Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick out the constituents of the future. An environment must be suited to the age and men to their environment.
• If you are searching for a Neter, observe Nature!
• All seed answer light, but the color is different.
• All organs work together in the functioning of the whole.
• 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.