Below are some of the powerful teachings proverbs found in the temples of Luxor.
Man, know yourself... and you shalt know the gods.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
People bring about their own undoing through their tongues.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Listen to your conviction, even if they seem absurd to your reason.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Love is one thing, knowledge is another.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Leave him in error who loves his error.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
True sages are those who give what they have, without meanness and without secret!
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Organization is impossible unless those who know the laws of harmony lay the foundation.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
One foot isn't enough to walk with.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Seek peacefully, you will find.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of Maat.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Judge by cause, not by effect.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
For every joy there is a price to be paid.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Not the greatest Master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself he
must experience each stage of developing consciousness. Therefore he will know nothing for which he is not ripe.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Everyone finds himself in the world where he belongs. The essential thing is to have a fixed point from which to check its reality now and then.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Akhenaton (or Akhenaten) was the tenth pharaoh of Egypt's
eighteenth dynasty (c.1352-1336 BCE).
Son of Amenhotep III and the chief queen, Tiya, Akhenaton
succeeded to the throne as Amenhotep IV and took a throne
name meaning "the sun's ultimate perfection, unique one
of the sun." He created a new capital at Amarna.
He is often referred to as the "heretic pharaoh," due
to his abandonment of all of the traditional Egyptian gods
except for Aten, the god associated with the disc of the
sun who had been growing in importance and popularity for at
least a couple of generations prior to the reign of Akhenaten.
It was in honour of this god that the pharaoh changed his name.
(1352-1336 BCE)
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
~ Confucius
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that
increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
~ Akhenaton
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates
