Below are some of the powerful teachings proverbs found in the temples of Luxor.
Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The second concerning the 'way': the seeker has need of a Master to guide him and lift him up when he falls, to lead him back to the right way when he strays.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
To teach one must know the nature of those whom one is teaching.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If his heart rules him, his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If you are searching for a Neter, observe Nature!
~ Egyptian Proverbs
To know means to record in one's memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
As to deserving, know that the gift of heaven is free; this gift of Knowledge is so great that no effort whatever could hope to 'deserve' it.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal criticism. Never believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment
does not grow in laziness; and this faculty of discernment
is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The body is the house of god. That is why it is said, "Man know yourself."
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Each truth you learn will be, for you, as new as if it had never been written.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
When the governing class isn't chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he deserves to learn from you.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
We mustn't confuse mastery with mimicry, knowledge with superstitious ignorance.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Your body is the temple of knowledge.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
A man's heart is his own Neter.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
No discussion can throw light if it wanders from the real point.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
A house has the character of the man who lives in it.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
All seed answer light, but the color is different.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If you would build something solid, don't work with wind: always look for a fixed point, something you know that is stable... yourself.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Altruism is the mark of a superior being.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
A phenomenon always arises from the interaction of complementary. If you want something look for the complement that will elicit it. Seth causes Horus.
Horus redeems Seth.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The plant reveals what is in the seed.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Always watch and follow nature.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
If you defy an enemy by doubting his courage you double it.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
It is better not to know and to know that one does not know, than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Physical consciousness is indispensable for the achievement of knowledge.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Our senses serve to affirm, not to know.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
All organs work together in the functioning of the whole.
~ Egyptian Proverbs
Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.
~ 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
