"Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in……" — Samael Aun Weor
"Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts."
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37 Quotes by Samael Aun Weor
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There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet,…
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We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.
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We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and…
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Death is the return to the very beginning of one's life, with the possibility of repeating it again.
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When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly,…
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We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.
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Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.
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The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the…
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Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.
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The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.
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Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.
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In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no…
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More Abstractions Quotes
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described…
— Carl Sagan
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He…
— Flannery O'Connor
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
— Edmund Burke
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time…
— Walt Whitman
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
— Marianne Williamson
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or…
— Virginia Woolf
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For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
— Paulo Coelho
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