"Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide"
"Those who look outwards dream but those who look inwards awake"
- Carl Jung
The ancient Greeks had a saying: 'Know thyself and thy shall know all the mysteries of the gods and the universe'.
Shakespeare wrote 'to thine own self be true' and the poet Matthew Arnold wrote 'Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.'
"Astrology is a rich, sophisticated, symbolic language that can be used to explore a wide variety of areas: it is the study of the nature of time as measured by the motions of the planets."
"Health is the proper relationship between the microcosm, which is man, and the macrocosm which is the universe. Disease is a disruption of this relationship."
- Dr Yeshi Donden, physician to the Dalai Lama
"In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships."
- Edgar Cayce, psychic & 'sleeping prophet of Virginia Beach'
“Religions are different roads converging upon the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?”
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mohandas K. Ghandi
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
If you stay in the centre and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever."
- Lao-tzu , Tao-te ching “The Book of the Way and Its Power”
"When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
- Jesus, according to the Gospel of St Thomas
“Do not despise the world, for the world too is God. Whoever knows himself knows God.”
– Muhammad
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"The intuitive mind is a Sacred Gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten The Gift."
- Albert Einstein
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."
"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
- the Dalai Lama
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
- Goethe
"Times will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain, therefore, awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."
- Plato
"Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of which they know nothing."
- Voltaire
"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."
- Kahlil Gibran, Prophet
“The time has come to take stock of ourselves, to discriminate between priorities, to asses the use we are making of our power and capabilities, and above all, to recognize the limits and truth of our own nature and humanity.”
- Howard Sasportas, author of The Twelve Houses
"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity, love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way."
- Carlos Barrios, author of Kam Wuj: El Libro del Destino, a book that explores Mayan teachings
"Three hundred years ago astrology was suppressed under a tide of mechanical scientific views and religious instability. Science did not want to deal with any study that utilised invisible energy fields amd religion did not want the masses to have a tool for self-realisation. Today, quantum physics has opened science to the possibility of invisible forces and people are fed up with the dogmatic, limiting structures of the religious institutions. Astrology is re-emerging just in time for the spiritual revolution."
- Kelly Lee Phipps, author of The Celestial Renaissance
dum vivimus, vivamus - let us live while we live
In lak 'ech - I am another yourself or I am you, you are me!
act now - this day will never come again
& consider this old Chinese proverb:
When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person;
When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the home;
When there is harmony in the home, there is honour in the nation;
When there is honour in the nation, there is peace in the world.
Last but not least we'd like to include a couple of quotes from the co-founders of the Theosophical movement which is truly an admirable cause in its approach to making the world a better place and what's amazing is that anyone can adopt their principles to enhance the lives of everyone around them:
"Theosophy is that ocean of knowledge which spreads from shore to shore of the evolution of sentient beings; unfathomable in its deepest parts, it gives the greatest minds their fullest scope, yet, shallow enough at its shores, it will not overwhelm the understanding of a child." - from The Ocean of Theosophy, by William Q. Judge, 1893
Three chief objects:
1. Brotherhood of man, without distinction of race, colour, religion, or social position
2. The serious study of the ancient world-religions for purposes of comparison and the selection therefrom of universal ethics
3. The study and development of the latent divine powers in man
- from The Key to Theosophy, by H. P. Blavatsky, 1889
For more information on Theosophy please click here or to find out how to become a Theosophist click here - this is not a 'club' - it does not require fees and its members are true altruists from all faiths who come together in the pursuit of knowledge and the 'absolute truth' for the good of mankind.