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KNOW YOURSELF
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"It becomes increasingly clear that if the perplexities and confusions besetting modern society are to be resolved in a satisfactory way, this can be done only as the result of an awakening and a development of the spiritual powers and potentialities at present lying dormant within each human being." Paul M. Allen, Introduction
Alchemists Through the Ages
(Arthur Edward Waite)
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"The growth into the fullness of our own being is a growing into a progressively greater knowledge of the being of God."
Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights
(Martin Israel)
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"You have in yourself something similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"For him who is aware of the highest Self, God is in All Things." Heinrich Zimmer, 'Kunstform und Yoga im indischen Kultbild' (Berlin, 1926),
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
(Joseph Campbell)
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"Self-knowledge comes through a relationship with and a commitment to something or someone beyond one's self, beyond the gratification of one's personal needs."
Dancing in the Flames, The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
(Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson)
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"We have to acquire a certain view of what we call our self, by means of true and intimate observation, carried out willingly and with discipline."
Reincarnation and Immortality
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"The entire world is nothing but the reflection of your own Self, reflected in the mirror of your own awareness….There is ONLY the Self, there is ONLY God."
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
(Ken Wilber)
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"The Father/Mother, my Group of brothers and sisters and I, are One. I am a conscious expression of the Power of the Universe acting through the Will-to-Good. This enlightened understanding awakens me to my Self."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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"God is within us as the Self, the Divine Spark."
Divine Light and Love
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"The true universal, 'higher' self within us is an individualized center of God-consciousness."
Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles
(John Marks Templeton)
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"Every child of God's heart must discover who he is. To do so, he must know his intrinsic worth."
Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness
(Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"Then Usata Akrayana asked him: 'O Yajnavalkya!' he said, 'Explain to me what is the Brhaman, immediate and direct, which is the Self within all.' 'It is your Self within all.' 'O Yajnavalkya! Which of the Selves is it that is within all?' 'It is your Self within all which breathes in by your breathing in.'" Brhad Upanishad (900-600 bce)
The Quotable Spirit
(Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)
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"Remember the words of the wise Proclus: 'Know the Divinity which is within you that you may know the Divine One, of which your Soul is a ray.'"
Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge
(Zolar)
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"When the ancients said one's aim in life was to 'Know Thyself', they were exactly right."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"When we direct our eyes deep into our own self, we can automatically grasp the origin of our behavior and the direction to further progress."
Dialogue on Life, Buddhist Perspectives on Life and the Universe
(Daisaku Ikeda)
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"The soul does not see outside itself what it perceives, but it sees within." John Scotus Eriugena, (800?-877?), 'On The Division of Nature'
Selections From Medieval Philosophers
(Richard McKeon, editor and translator)
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"Pure, absolute and eternal Reality – such is Brahman, and 'thou art That.' Meditate upon this truth within your consciousness."
The Perennial Philosophy
(Aldous Huxley)
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“To experience trueness as a personal reality, one must first know what it means to ‘Be’; and to know how to ‘Be,’ it is necessary that one first learn what to ‘Be.’ This can only be achieved when one has acquired Self knowledge.”
Meditations on the Apocalypse, A Psycho-Spiritual Perspective on the Book of Revelation
(F. Aster Barnwell)
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"This is the purpose and the wonder of life…to constantly re-create ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision we ever held about Who We Are."
What God Wants
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"Each one of us who takes on the quest to understand ourselves could add something to the whole 'field'."
Unknown Man
(Yatri)
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"Never fear that this inner treasure of all reality will wither and decay. This knows no age when the body ages; this knows no dying when the body dies. This is the real city of Brahman; this is the Self, free from old age, from death and grief, hunger and thirst. In the Self all desires are fulfilled." Chandogya Upanishad
The Essential Mystics
(Andrew Harvey)
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"God calls us so that in the true and deepest sense of the word we may be ourselves and live out the innermost divine core within us."
The Eye Aware: Zen Lessons for Christians
(Jeroen Witkam)
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"The importance, the indispensable necessity, of self-knowledge has been stressed by the saints and doctors of every one of the great religious traditions."
The Perennial Philosophy
(Aldous Huxley)
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"We can know God only by knowing ourselves, for our real nature is similar to His. Man has been created in the image of God."
The Science of Religion
(Paramahansa Yogananda)
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"If we're deeply, truly honest with ourselves, we know we're longing to be pregnant with God."
The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life
(Marianne Williamson)
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