Below are some of the powerful teachings proverbs found in the temples of Luxor.
True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious for me alone: if I
unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense: Profanation, but never revelation.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
For knowledge... you should know that peace is an indispensable condition of getting it.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The first concerning the 'secrets': all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If the Master teaches what is error, the disciple's submission is slavery ; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
A man can't be judge of his neighbor' intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor's.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Routine and prejudice distort vision. Each man thinks his own horizon is the limit of the world.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Have the wisdom to abandon the values of a time that has passed and pick out the
constituents of the future. An environment must be suited to the age and men to their environment.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Men need images. Lacking them they invent idols. Better then to found the images on realities that lead the true seeker to the source.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Popular beliefs on essential matters must be examined in order to discover the original thought.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
All is within yourself. Know your most inward self and look for what corresponds with it in nature.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree.... The seed will develop these possibilities,
however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Maat, who links universal to terrestrial, the divine with the human is incomprehensible to the cerebral intelligence.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
There grows no wheat where there is no grain.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Every man must act in the rhythm of his time... such is wisdom.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Social good is what brings peace to family and society.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Man must learn to increase his sense of responsibility and of the fact that everything he does will have its consequences.
~ 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
