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Know Thyself
Self-Realization is necessary before God-Realization
The unexamined life is not worth living – Socrates
Do you deny me the entrance to heaven, I who have at last learned the mystery of myself - (Egyptian Mystery School Adage)
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone - Ayn Rand
Let no one who can be his own belong to another – Paracelsus
Thou art a Man, God is no more; Thy own humanity learn to adore – William Blake
God only acts and is, in existing beings or men – William Blake
In your own bosom you bear your Heaven and Earth; and all you behold, though it appears without, it is within – William Blake
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man – Alexander Pope
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls - Proverbs 25:28
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty - (Gospel of Thomas)
Jesus said: If you have gained this within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have this in you, what you do not have in you will kill you – (Gospel of Thomas)
He who knows himself knows god – Clement of Alexandria
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration - Jakob Burckhardt
Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple - Mikhail Naimy
You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars - Origen
You are the temple of God. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are - (1 Corinthians 3:16)
When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female - Clement of Alexandria
According to Bishop Epiphanius, the Krist is the spiritual self within each person - Tony Bushby
The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal - Carl Gustav Jung
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn; The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thyself it be set up again - Angelus Silesius
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings - Arno Gruen
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos, is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego - Alan Watts
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself - Friedrich Nietzsche
Many stand outside at the door, but it is only the solitaries who will enter into the bridal chamber - Jesus Christ
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society - J. Krishnamurti
‘Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not – J. Krishnamurti
Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well - Vernon Howard
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion - Vernon Howard
The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it – Carl Gustav Jung
We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil - Arno Gruen
Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse - Sophocles
Bodies cannot be changed except by reduction into their first matter – Figulus
In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule - Friedrich Nietzsche
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently suppressed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident – Arthur Schopenhauer
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy - Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction - Blaise Pascal
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, for wild beasts to fight in – Voltaire
I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour – Arthur Schopenhauer
Spiritual ignorance is the mother of all evil. Ignorance will eventuate in death, because those who come from ignorance neither were, nor are, nor shall be - Gospel of Philip
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune – Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light - Plato
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows – Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things – Epictetus
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust – Henri David Thoreau
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity – Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not - Tiresius to Oedipus
Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black were I read white - William Blake
History is a gallery where we see very few originals and many copies – de Tocqueville
Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel – Horace Walpole
The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools – Herbert Spenser
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
People will cease to commit atrocities when they cease to believe absurdities - Voltaire
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known - Michel de Montaigne
The educated person is someone who knows how to find out what he does not know - George Simmel
Where there is no vision the people perish – (Proverbs 29:18)
…every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs – Henrik Ibsen
Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it - George Carlin
Beware the barrenness of a busy life – Socrates
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness - Vernon Howard
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth - Vernon Howard
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived - Vernon Howard
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent – Vernon Howard
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it – Vernon Howard
Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself – Vernon Howard
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself – Vernon Howard
Ridicule is the compliment that mediocrity pays to genius - Anon
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth - Plato
Till now man has been up against Nature. From now he will be up against his own nature - Dennis Gabor
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at the center within yourself and I within mine, we shall be as one - Crazy Horse
The Earth and myself are of one mind - Chief Joseph
Nature is visible Spirit. Spirit is invisible Nature - Friedrich von Schelling
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature - J. J. Rousseau
Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander – Louis Agassiz
I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth – George Russell
…thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity - Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Come to the center of the earth and there you will find the Philosopher's Stone - (Alchemical Adage)
Our exile has not only been from the Goddess, but also from Nature. It is not surprising, considering that most Westerners live apart from their environment, protected by concrete roadways, consuming machine-processed foods and filled with media information to the detriment of the experience of our own senses. The seasons go unnoticed, we seldom touch the earth, eat fresh food or observe the world personally...The sacred is a forgotten dimension in our society which we ignore at our peril - Caitlin Matthews
Men are the devils of the earth, and animals the souls they torment - Arthur Schopenhauer
Self-Realization is necessary before God-Realization
The unexamined life is not worth living – Socrates
Do you deny me the entrance to heaven, I who have at last learned the mystery of myself - (Egyptian Mystery School Adage)
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone - Ayn Rand
Let no one who can be his own belong to another – Paracelsus
Thou art a Man, God is no more; Thy own humanity learn to adore – William Blake
God only acts and is, in existing beings or men – William Blake
In your own bosom you bear your Heaven and Earth; and all you behold, though it appears without, it is within – William Blake
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man – Alexander Pope
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls - Proverbs 25:28
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty - (Gospel of Thomas)
Jesus said: If you have gained this within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have this in you, what you do not have in you will kill you – (Gospel of Thomas)
He who knows himself knows god – Clement of Alexandria
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration - Jakob Burckhardt
Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple - Mikhail Naimy
You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars - Origen
You are the temple of God. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are - (1 Corinthians 3:16)
When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female - Clement of Alexandria
According to Bishop Epiphanius, the Krist is the spiritual self within each person - Tony Bushby
The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal - Carl Gustav Jung
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn; The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thyself it be set up again - Angelus Silesius
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings - Arno Gruen
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos, is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego - Alan Watts
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself - Friedrich Nietzsche
Many stand outside at the door, but it is only the solitaries who will enter into the bridal chamber - Jesus Christ
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society - J. Krishnamurti
‘Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not – J. Krishnamurti
Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well - Vernon Howard
When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion - Vernon Howard
The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it – Carl Gustav Jung
We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil - Arno Gruen
Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse - Sophocles
Bodies cannot be changed except by reduction into their first matter – Figulus
In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule - Friedrich Nietzsche
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently suppressed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident – Arthur Schopenhauer
Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy - Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction - Blaise Pascal
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, for wild beasts to fight in – Voltaire
I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour – Arthur Schopenhauer
Spiritual ignorance is the mother of all evil. Ignorance will eventuate in death, because those who come from ignorance neither were, nor are, nor shall be - Gospel of Philip
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune – Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light - Plato
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows – Epictetus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things – Epictetus
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust – Henri David Thoreau
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity – Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not - Tiresius to Oedipus
Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black were I read white - William Blake
History is a gallery where we see very few originals and many copies – de Tocqueville
Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel – Horace Walpole
The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools – Herbert Spenser
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
People will cease to commit atrocities when they cease to believe absurdities - Voltaire
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known - Michel de Montaigne
The educated person is someone who knows how to find out what he does not know - George Simmel
Where there is no vision the people perish – (Proverbs 29:18)
…every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs – Henrik Ibsen
Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it - George Carlin
Beware the barrenness of a busy life – Socrates
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness - Vernon Howard
The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth - Vernon Howard
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived - Vernon Howard
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent – Vernon Howard
See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it – Vernon Howard
Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself – Vernon Howard
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself – Vernon Howard
Ridicule is the compliment that mediocrity pays to genius - Anon
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth - Plato
Till now man has been up against Nature. From now he will be up against his own nature - Dennis Gabor
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at the center within yourself and I within mine, we shall be as one - Crazy Horse
The Earth and myself are of one mind - Chief Joseph
Nature is visible Spirit. Spirit is invisible Nature - Friedrich von Schelling
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature - J. J. Rousseau
Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander – Louis Agassiz
I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth – George Russell
…thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity - Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Come to the center of the earth and there you will find the Philosopher's Stone - (Alchemical Adage)
Our exile has not only been from the Goddess, but also from Nature. It is not surprising, considering that most Westerners live apart from their environment, protected by concrete roadways, consuming machine-processed foods and filled with media information to the detriment of the experience of our own senses. The seasons go unnoticed, we seldom touch the earth, eat fresh food or observe the world personally...The sacred is a forgotten dimension in our society which we ignore at our peril - Caitlin Matthews
Men are the devils of the earth, and animals the souls they torment - Arthur Schopenhauer