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.

More Egyptian Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.