Egypt. Egyptian Proverbs

Egypt. Egyptian Proverbs
Man, know yourself...
and you shalt know the gods.

People bring about their
own undoing through
their tongues.

If one tries to navigate
unknown waters one runs
the risk of shipwreck.

If you search for the laws
of harmony, you will
find knowledge.

Listen to your conviction,
even if they seem absurd
to your reason.

Experience will show you,
a Master can only
point the way.

Love is one thing,
knowledge is another.

Leave him in error
who loves his error.

True sages are those who
give what they have,
without meanness
and without secret!

Organization is impossible
unless those who know the
laws of harmony lay
the foundation.

One foot isn't enough
to walk with.

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.

Know the world in yourself.
Never look for yourself
in the world, for this would
be to project your illusion.

The only thing that is
humiliating is helplessness.

Seek peacefully, you will find.

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.

Judge by cause, not by effect.

The first thing necessary
in teaching is a master;
the second is a pupil capable
of carrying on the tradition.

The man who knows how to
lead one of his brothers
towards what he has known
may one day be saved by
that very brother.

For every joy there is
a price to be paid.

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.

The best and shortest
road towards knowledge
of truth is Nature.

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.

By knowing one reaches belief.
By doing one gains conviction.
When you know, dare.

Grain must return to
the earth, die, and
decompose for new
growth to begin.

Every man is rich in excuses
to safeguard his prejudices,
his instincts, and his opinions.

True teaching is not an
accumulation of knowledge;
it is an awaking of
consciousness which goes
through successive stages.

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.

Understanding develops
by degrees.

An answer if profitable in
proportion to the intensity
of the quest.

The way of knowledge
is narrow.

In every vital activity it is
the path that matters.

The only active force that
arises out of possession is
fear of losing the object
of possession.

For knowledge... you should
know that peace is an
indispensable condition
of getting it.

The first concerning the
'secrets': all cognition
comes from inside;
we are therefore initiated
only by ourselves, but the
Master gives the keys.

If the Master teaches
what is error, the disciple's
submission is slavery ;
if he teaches truth, this
submission is ennoblement.

A man can't be judge
of his neighbor' intelligence.
His own vital experience is
never his neighbor's.

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

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.

Men need images. Lacking them
they invent idols. Better then
to found the images on
realities that lead the true
seeker to the source.

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

All is within yourself.
Know your most inward self
and look for what corresponds
with it in nature.

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.

Maat, who links universal
to terrestrial, the divine
with the human is
incomprehensible to the
cerebral intelligence.

Growth in consciousness
doesn't depend on the will
of the intellect or its
possibilities but on the
intensity of the inner urge.

There grows no wheat
where there is no grain.

Every man must act in the
rhythm of his time...
such is wisdom.

Knowledge is not
necessarily wisdom.

Social good is what brings
peace to family and society.

Man must learn to increase
his sense of responsibility
and of the fact that everything
he does will have its
consequences.

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