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Kais told to his son: Do not consult a worried man, no matter how good counselor he may be; nor a starving person no matter how intelligent he may look like; nor afflicted no matter how much trustworthy he may be to you. The worries, the sadness and the pains disturb the mind and obstruct the judgment.
“The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way for the common good. We are a family and we should not miserably torment each other’s life because that’s absurd”.
"There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain”.
"In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed”. .
Jesus said: “A city built and fortified in a high mountain cannot fall nor go unnoticed”.
“Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought”.
“Rule your mind or it will rule you”.
“If you can talk and it’s convenient to talk, try to say things that edify”.
“Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us”. Lao Tse
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it’s not healthy”.
“When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It’s simply a reality as natural as the one of a tree that has growth slowly and developed without starts or sensational stuffs. Nature is Nature”.
“By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don’t let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give”.
"To properly educate the youth is to form good citizens and head of the family”. Virgil.
“Let’s be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let’s make of our lips a censer of the virtues”.
“The heat of charity opens the doors of the heart. The heat of charity brings solar faith to the Mind. Charity is Conscious Love”.
“There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence…”
“Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type”.
“I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness”.
“From all the human beings that come to the world, very few are those who look for perfection, very few are those who reach the perfection, and from those who reach the perfection, very rare is the one who know me”.
“Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring how to use the science’s modern instruments, tries to study the life of what is infinitely small with telescopes and the life of what is infinitely large with microscopes”. Samael Aun Weor.
“Each one falls in the hole that he has made. The evil thing comes back over the head of who produces it. The injustice falls over the one who originates it, that is the law”. Samael Aun Weor. Pistis Sophia
“For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot; and we oversight what is necessary; because every man goes towards the exterior; and if he doesn’t regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it”. Tomas à Kempis
The pain does not bring perfection because the pain is from Satan. The Great Divine Reality is happiness, peace, abundance and perfection. The Great Reality can’t create the pain. What is perfect can’t create pain. What is perfect only conceives happiness. Samael Aun Weor.
“Woman is the law of beauty and the law must be obeyed and not infringed”. “Woman is the Nature’s religion whose moral should be felt and not stammer out”. “God is a mysterious word and the woman it’s meaning”. Mago Jefa
“Only the similar could be known by the similar. The senses show us a changing world, of shadows, not the real one. It is the Soul what gets to know what is essential of everything; she is the one who knows the world of the ideas. If she knows it, it is because she takes part of it, because she is similar to the ideas. If she is similar to the ideas, then, she is as they are, eternall". Phaedo
“Woman is the divine art that does not imitate, but explain the divinity with symbols. Woman is the highest beauty of God, love manifests her, and desire kills her. Woman is the most beautiful thought of the Absolute, which must be captured by the intelligence and not seen by the eyes”.
“The disciple should not let himself fall, because the disciple who falls has to struggle a lot to recover what he has lost”.
“Kill the sensation; look the same way the pleasure and pain, profit and loss, victory and defeat”.
Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing.
The Man as brain, like dynamo, makes force; woman as heart produces love; force kills, love resuscitates. In order to go back to God in clear path of peace, saving the hectic battle, the woman is the only way.
“The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects”
“I’ve told you already my disciple that the present harms are caused y the ignorance of the past and therefore they have no remedy. But as the harms of the future will be the consequence of the hams of the ignorance of the present, let’s try to be wise in order to avoid them”. Indian wisdom
“The Hart was once admiring his horns but hated his horrible legs. At that moment a Hunter approached and soon, by the aid of his nimble legs, the Hart was nearly out of sight of the Hunter; but not noticing where he was going, he passed under some trees with branches growing low down in which his antlers were caught, so that the Hunter had time to come up.” Samaniego.
“Ignorance is the greatest poverty". Panchatantra
“If one doesn’t get the desired object, there is unhappiness. If one gets it, there is anxiety for the possibility of losing it. If there is lack of it or its answers is negative, there is greater unhappiness. In this way, the real joy consists in the renouncement of desire”.
“The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn’t enjoy if it’s not defeated”
“I’m sleeping, but my heart is keeping watch”.
“The offender, who repents, is not yet lost”.
“Love is the fat wing that God has given to the Soul so it can fly up to Heaven”
The noblest placer is the joy of Understanding.
“The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds…” . Seneca
If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what’s good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.
“The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit”.
“Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent…”
If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.
"It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them".
“The biggest mistake that the doctors make is to heal the body without trying to heal the Soul; however, body and soul are one and they shouldn’t be treated separately”.
“When a man leads himself with the principles of reciprocity and consciousness is not far from the moral Law. What you don’t want others to make you, you don’t make to others”.
“Fear and longing for security and protection take men to create political parties or religious groups with which he gets identify… in this way the differences are born, the antagonism develops and wars continue”. Krishnamurti
“Who is unhappy with little, won’t be with much; who doesn’t appreciate the small won’t be able to take care of the large; who doesn’t have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task”.
“Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow”.
“For he who is born, the death is for sure, and for he who is dead, to born is for sure. Therefore you should not complain in the inevitable performing of your duty”.
“The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home”.
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody…”
We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that’s why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted”. Pythagoras.
“We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations…” Heraclitus.
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
“The Esoteric Philosophy conciliates all religions, undresses them from their external human clothes and probes that the root of every one of those is the same of all the others religions”.
“To realize that our knowledge is ignorance is an internal noble comprehension. To consider our ignorance as knowledge is a mental sickness”.
“Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself”.
“Before the Soul could see, the interior harmony should be reached and the physical eyes have to be blinded to any illusion”
“As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise”.
“A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time”. Samael Aun Weor
“All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don’t find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside”.
“It is perhaps possible to live putting down roots on the soil? Not forever on the Earth: just a little bit here. Even if it’s made of jade it gets smashed, even if it’s made with gold it gets broken, even if it’s made with quetzal’s plumage it gets ripped… Not forever on the Earth: Just a little bit here”.
“We truly live happy if we don’t hate those who hate us, if among men who hate us we live free of bitterness”.
“We truly live happy if we don’t hate those who hate us, if among men who hate us we live free of bitterness”.
“Satyât nâsti paro dharmah”. There is no higher religion that the Truth.
"Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things".
“Although the Sun tires you by day and the Moon saddens you at night, do not lose your foothold, nor sleep whilst on guard.”
“Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare”.
" Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest" -Let no man that can belong to himself be of another-
“We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don’t change anything, don’t transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of TRANSFORMATION, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society”.
“Why do you chase the darkness when the light is available for you?... The Wisdom is calling you and even though you desire the foolishness... ? A fool… goes in the path of the desire of every passion… it’s like the ship that is moved one side to another by the wind, like a horse without horseman… before anything else… know yourself”.
“Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects”.
“It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace”.
“The fear kills the willpower and paralyzes any action. If the pilgrim is lacking of the Shila virtue (harmony in word and action), then he will trip and the karmic pebbles will hurt his feet in the stony path”.
“That person attains peace who giving up all material desires for sense gratification lives free from attachments, free from false ego and sense of proprietorship”.
"As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind. As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind".
“The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived”.
“… as the lifeless butterfly fall off at the threshold, caught by the north wind, so must fall off lifeless the worldly thoughts before the temple.”
“Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight”.
“Wise are those who control their body, their tongue and their mind, those are the real Masters".
“Knowing that we don’t know it’s humility; thinking that we know what we don’t know, is sickness”.
“The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes”.
"As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the roaming senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man’s intelligence."
"Kinsmen, friends, and lovers salute a man who has been long away, and returns safe from afar. In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and has gone from this world to the other;--as kinsmen receive a friend on his return".
“All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity”.
“The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never”.
“The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom”.
“Rouse thyself! Do not be idle! Follow the law of virtue! The virtuous rests in bliss in this world and in thenext.”
“The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance”.
“The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself”.
"If one man conquers in battle a thousand times thousand men, and if another conquers himself, he is the greatest of conquerors".
“Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness”.
“The happiest man in the world is that who recognize other’s merits and who can feel joy of the good of his neighbors as if it were his own good”.
"Where love reigns, there's no need for laws".
“Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within”.
“Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other’s lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life”.
The external freedom won’t be given to us but in the exact measure as we’ve known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom. Mahatma Gandhi
“Even so faith without works is dead”.
"May the star of Bethlehem shine in your path".
“Don’t make to others what you don’t want them to make to you”. Confucius
"Gnosis is a very natural function of the Consciousness; it is a philosophia perennis et universalis". Samael Aun Weor. The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac
“That person of wise judgment equipoise in happiness and distress, whom cannot be disturbed by these, is certainly eligible for liberation”. Bhagavad Guita. Chapter 2:15
"To find or discover our true, individual vocation is, as a matter of fact, equivalent to discovering a very precious treasure". Samael Aun Weor, Fundamental Education.
The evil-doer mourns in this world, and he mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work. 16. The virtuous man delights in this world, and he delights in the next; he delights in both. He delights and rejoices, when he sees the purity of his own work. Dhammapada 1:15-16
“Some think that they know everybody, but they really don’t know themselves”. Albert Durero
"Knowledge and Being must balance each other, in order to establish in our psyche the flame of comprehension". Samael Aun Weor. The Great Rebellion.
“To tell you the Truth: It’s better to give rather than to receive”. Amado Nervo (Mexican Poet)
"To know oneself it is to have achieved identification with our own divine Being". Samael Aun Weor. The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac.
"In the unreal there is no duration and in the real there is no cessation; indeed the conclusion between both the two has been analyzed by knowers of the truth. But know that by whom this entire body is pervaded, is indestructible. No one is able to cause the destruction of the imperishable soul". BHAGAVAD GITA. Chapter. 2 Vers. 16 y 17
"Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness. If one is sick of sickness, then one is not sick. The sage is not sick because he is sick of sickness. Therefore he is not sick".
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te King, 71
“Like a border city, guarded within and without, so guard yourself. Do not let slip this opportunity, for they who let slip the opportunity grieve when born in a woeful state”. Dhammapada 22:10
"Our real BEING is LOVE, and from this LOVE is born the authentic and genuine INTELLIGENCE which doesn’t belong to the time". Samael Aun Weor
"Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war". Samael Aun Weor.
“Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless, heedlessness is the path to the death. The heedful do not die; the heedless are like unto death". Dhammapada 2:1
Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it’s a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: “LOVE IS LAW, BUT CONSCIOUS LOVE”. Samael Aun Weor
The perfume of flowers blows not against the wind, not does the fragrance of sandalwood, tagara and jasmine, but the fragrance of the virtuous blows against the wind; the virtuous man pervades every direction. Dhammapada 4:11
Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering. Samael Aun Weor.
Wanting to transform the World it is impossible without the blaze of LOVE. Only LOVE can truly transform the World”.
Samael Aun Weor.
“Easily seen are others' faults, hard indeed to see are one's own. Life chaff one winnows others' faults, but one's own (faults) one hides, as a crafty fowler conceals himself by camouflage”. Dhammapada 18:18
"By the sword of transcendental knowledge destroy these doubts of the self, born of ignorance, situated in the heart and taking shelter of the science of uniting the individual consciousness with the Ultimate Consciousness arise for battle". Bhagavad Guita, 4:42
"Nothing is more insidious than possession. Nothing is more dangerous than desire. Nothing is more disastrous than greed. If you know when enough is enough, you will always have enough. Lao Tzú, Tao Te King 46.
“When you get to know yourselves, then you´ll be known and you will realize that you are sons of the Living Father. But if don´t know yourselves, then you are plunged into poverty and you are the poverty itself”. St Thomas´ Gospel.
“To many a refuge fear-stricken men betake themselves - to hills, woods, groves, trees, and shrines. Nay, no such refuge is safe, no such refuge is supreme. Not by resorting to such a refuge is one freed from all ill”. Dhammapada 14:10-11
“It is declared the senses are superior but more than the senses the mind is superior but more than the mind the intelligence is superior and more than the intelligence that which is superior is Him”. Bhagavad Gita 3:42
"Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb". -. Solomon
Verily, an evil deed committed does not immediately bear fruit, just as milk curdles not at once; smouldering, it follows the fool like fire covered with ashes. Dhammapada, 5:12
"Whatever (harm) a foe may do to a foe, or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind can do one far greater (harm).
What neither mother, nor father, nor any other relative can do, a well-directed mind does and thereby elevates one".
Dhammapada 3:10-11
“Before all, BE REAL. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus’ Lyre power”. Pythagoras.
To talk improperly not only is to commit a fault in what it’s been said, but also it’s a kind of harm that is given
to the Souls”. –Plato
“If you live criticizing people, you won’t have time to love them”. Goethe
“Don’t open your lips if you aren’t sure about what you’re going to say; the silence is more beautiful” – Arabian proverb.
“Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain”. –Confucius
“Accustom your lips to say nice words, your hands to make useful works; don’t enrage yourself”.
– The Golden Verses.
“Our greater glory is not in ever falling, but in rising whenever we fall” – Confucius.
“That, who keeps his mouth, keeps his Soul”. – Solomon.
“Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again”. Jesus (Luk 6:37-38)
"It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other’s words with nothing of the own heart." -Mahatma Gandhi.
“To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.” Samael Aun Weor.
"Irrigators lead the water; fletchers fashion the shaft; carpenters carve the wood; the wise discipline themselves". - Dhammapada 6:5
"If your human greatness arise you vanity, think about space, which greatness is so much bigger than yours, because it contains everything". – Tales of Mileto.
“Patience is the Gnostic’s scale and the humble the garden’s door”. Samael Aun Weor.
"The fear and doubt are two thieves of happiness". –Saint Germain
“Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.” Mahatma Ghandi
"Take delight in heedfulness. Guard your mind well. Draw yourselves out of the evil way just as the elephant sunk in the mud draws himself out". -Dhammapada, 23:8.
"You must base the Wisdom on Love" Plato.
“I warn you, whoever you are, Oh, you who wish to probe the arcanes of nature, if you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither shall you be able to find it outside. If you ignore the excellencies of your own house, how do you intend to find other excellencies? In you is hidden the treasure of treasures. Oh, man, know yourself and you shall know the Universe and the Gods!” Phrase inscribed in the ancient Temple of Delphi.
