Know Thyself

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know... Love all, trust a few... To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware of the unknown self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

Man's ego itself is Maya. It is the veil that shuts out the light

Edgar Cayce asks us to ponder the parallels between the Death and Resurrection and our own sleeping soul self.

This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.

The Infinite is bliss.

Come to know thyself.

I know nothing.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I rest not from my great task!To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought, into Eternity Ever expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination.

What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own self?

The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search.

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

And you can try from now until the end of time to change the outside, but only when you change your way of thinking can you change your world.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

If you do not know the Infinite Good, you do not know yourself.

Would you rather be right or free? Who cares if you are enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now? This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Your children are genius creators who have just arrived from Nonphysical, who are feeling empowered. And if they would be left to their own devices, they would not go astray. They would maintain worthiness; they would maintain their feeling of Well-Being. They would thrive, unless it was taught otherwise to them. In other words, if others don’t do something to change their vibration, they are in a vibration of thriving.