Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.
More Egyptian Proverbs
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.
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.