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Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (162)
Learn the Intelligible for it subsisteth beyond the Mind.
Bhagavad Gita
Jnana Yoga (4.34)
Know that (Knowledge) by long prostration, question, and service (to the master). The sages who have realised the truth will instruct you in that...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The First Method of Closing the Womb-Door (30.4)
Repeat this, from thine own mouth, distinctly; and remember its meaning vividly, and meditate upon it. The putting of this into practice is essential.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 3 (1)
For as the closed fist holds two amalaka or two kola or two aksha fruits, thus does mind hold speech and name. For if a man is minded in his mind to r...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 8 (1)
One powerful man shakes a hundred men of understanding. If a man is powerful, he becomes a rising man. If he rises, he becomes a man who visits wise p...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (19)
By perfectly concentrated Meditation on mind-images is gained the understanding of the thoughts of others.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Third Day (6.6)
If thou dost not recognize the radiance of thine own intellect, think, with faith, 'It is the radiance of the grace of the Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava; I...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (333)
You cannot receive understanding unless you know first that you possess . In everything there is again this sentence.
Dhammapada
Chapter XXV: The Bhikshu (Mendicant) (379)
Rouse thyself by thyself, examine thyself by thyself, thus self-protected and attentive wilt thou live happily, O Bhikshu!
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (17)
The sound and the object and the thought called up by a word are confounded because they are all blurred together in the mind. By perfectly...
Allogenes the Stranger
Praises of Barbelo according to [Existence?], Vitality, and Mentality (4)
[...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] ... [...] [...] knowledge."
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (63)
It is not so to be understood as that I am sufficient enough in these things, but only so far as I am able to comprehend.
Bhagavad Gita
Bhakti Yoga (12.9)
O Arjuna! If you are not able to fix the mind firmly in Me, then desire to reach Me by the yoga of constant practice. (Practise constantly and fix...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (34)
By perfectly concentrated Meditation on the heart, the interior being, comes the knowledge of consciousness.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Closing of the Door of the Womb (28.3)
Listen undistractedly. Even though thou hast not apprehended by the above settings-face-to-face, here [thou wilt, because] even those who are very wea...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.21)
By knowing Him only, a wise Brahman should get for himself intelligence; He should not meditate upon many words, For that is a weariness of speech.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (8)
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously endeavour to obtain this greatest good....
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introductory Instructions Concerning the Experiencing of Reality During the Third Stage of the Bardo, Called the Chonyid Bardo, when the Karmic Apparitions Appear (3.17)
O nobly-born, if thou dost not now recognize thine own thought-forms, whatever of meditation or of devotions thou mayst have performed while in the...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.60)
O Arjuna! The turbulent senses carry away the mind even of the learned man though he is striving to control them.
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (3)
Remove yourself from these things, O wretched soul! Bring your guide and your teacher. The mind is the guide, but reason is the teacher. They will...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 5 (4.5.5)
Then spake Yajnavalkya: < Though, verily, you, my lady, were dear to us, you have increased your clearness. Behold, then, lady, I will explain it to...
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