Aphorisms - Knowing
Fulfilment is in the feeling of the doing, not in the doing. How can I know the feeling of doing without doing?
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The only wisdom is the wisdom of self-knowledge.
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It is said all men are entitled to their opinion, in truth all men are not entitled to their opinion. A thing is either true or false or you don't know.
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If you were to look with real knowledge you would not see bad or good, only what is right.
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Enough pain will eventually make even the most stupid man look for the truth of himself.
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You have to see yourself exactly as you are and not as you imagine you are.
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Perseverance in self-knowledge takes great courage.
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The knife has to be a knife. It cannot be a spoon. You have to learn to be yourself. First, you have to face the fact that you are what you see you are. Then there is the possibility of change, not before. While you make excuses for yourself you are not being yourself. You are trying to be what you are not. Don't be alarmed. When you finally see yourself as you are, you will find you are looking at the shell of what you used to be. You will know, I am this, no longer that.
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To realise God you will have to discard every idea, every image, everything you have ever read or been taught or heard about God.
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Man tries to take his right and wrong from the ten commandments or some other rigid concept. He cannot do that. He cannot take his right and wrong out of a book, out of what some philosopher has laid down. He has to go into himself, into his essential being, and say: "What is right and wrong for me"?.
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While you ever have to quote (or refer to) another, you do not know.
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You only need a code of commandments while you believe the priests.
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No faith is necessary. Nothing is necessary outside yourself.
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The person is the only problem.
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I, the individual man or woman, am responsible for all the circumstances of my life. As I am within, so is my life without. If my circumstances are painful, I am doing it. No one is to blame.
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I am the circumstances of my life.
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Nothing in the universe is expanding except knowledge. Nothing is moving except intelligence.
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The Westernisation of the masses demands continuous streams of information – not knowledge.
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To correlate discovery and knowledge of the universe with self–discovery and self-knowledge is probably the most difficult yet exacting and rewarding connection man can make.
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My self alone can I know, or do I need to know, to know all.
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Man only resorts to reasoning when he does not know something.
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Man's ability to destroy nature or himself (mankind) is only equal at any time to his knowledge of nature or himself.
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A theory is the scientist's way of admitting, quite rightly, quite honestly, I do not know the truth.
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You do not believe in anything you know, man or woman. So beware of the man or woman who says 'I believe'. It means 'I do not know'.
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You cannot believe in God. You know God – or you don't know God.
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Anything you believe in has to let you down.
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If you believe in anything, it means you don't know.
And it is a fool who believes in what he does not know.
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The problem in any relationship is always for you – not for the other.
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We are programmed to know what we realise.
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You know everything I'm saying and enjoy it because it reveals all the truth you have in you.
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I cannot know anything unless I've felt it.
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You can't be free until you know you're in prison.
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In the first instance I don't know who I am, but I am.
In the second instance, I am man.
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Before you can escape from your burrow, you must know you're trapped. Then there is a chance.
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Man is a struggling pain to know.
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Memory is the dream world.
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What intelligence needs to know next is always there in any moment - but not necessarily what it wants to know.