"Knowledge of the Self is the only true knowledge."
-Unknown
"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you and whoever knows himself shall find it. Know your Self."
-Jesus, Oxyrhynchus Manuscript.
"Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature."
-Lao-tzu
"This above all, to thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
-William Shakespeare
"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie."
-William Shakespeare
"But if a man happens to find himself he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the the days of his life."
-James Michener
"He who knows himself, knows the All"
-Hermes Trismegistos
"Learn what you are and be such."
-Pindar
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself."
-Montaigne
"Resolve to be thyself: and Know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery."
-Matthew Arnold
"Gnosis involves an intuitive process of knowing oneself. And to know oneself....is to know human nature and human destiny.....Yet to know oneself, at the deepest level, is simultaneously, to know God."
-Elaine Pagels
I am not I
I am this one
Who goes by my side without my seeing him
whom, at times, I go to see
and whom, at times, I forget.
He who is silent, serene, when I speak,
he who pardons, sweetly, when I resent,
he who passes through places I am not,
he who will remain standing when I die."
-Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)
"It's wrong to say I think. Better to say: I am thought....I is an other."
-Arthur Rimbaud, 1871
"Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self."
-May Sarton Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
-Hermes Trismegistos
"Learn what you are and be such."
-Pindar
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself."
-Montaigne
"Resolve to be thyself: and Know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery."
-Matthew Arnold
"Gnosis involves an intuitive process of knowing oneself. And to know oneself....is to know human nature and human destiny.....Yet to know oneself, at the deepest level, is simultaneously, to know God."
-Elaine Pagels
I am not I
I am this one
Who goes by my side without my seeing him
whom, at times, I go to see
and whom, at times, I forget.
He who is silent, serene, when I speak,
he who pardons, sweetly, when I resent,
he who passes through places I am not,
he who will remain standing when I die."
-Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)
"It's wrong to say I think. Better to say: I am thought....I is an other."
-Arthur Rimbaud, 1871
"Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self."
-May Sarton Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
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