Gnosis Quotes

• Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

  Eric Voegelin

  Philosophy, Spring, Philosophical

  Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.273, University of Missouri Press

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• To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Knowledge, Littles, Firsts

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• Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Running, Thinking, Water

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• When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'

  Buda Gautama

  Buddhist, Goal, Tasks

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• El Reino de Dios está dentro de ti.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosticism

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). "La no ficción de Leo Tolstoy: (Incluye Una confesión, El reino de Dios está en ti, Carta a un hindú, Juventud, Tolstoi sobre Shakespeare, Qué hacer)", p.138, Golgotha Press.

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• It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey God, love Him, and worship Him. This gnosis should be sought for the sake of God, not for any other reason whatsoever, unlike the remaining external acts of devotion, which can be performed for other worldly interests, such as hypocrisy, praise, and commendation.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

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• Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat, Degrees, Bishops

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• La gnosis se vive en los hechos, se marchita en las abstracciones y es difícil de encontrar incluso en los pensamientos más nobles.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Facts, Difficult, Abstraction

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• Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

  Judas Iscariote

  Truth, Sleep, Evil

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• I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Thinking, Greek

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• When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Oneness, Emptiness

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• The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.

  Kenny Smith

  Wise, Philosophy, Keys

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• I would like now to shed light in your heart on the truth of things, for it was not my will, but that of the Father and my Rabbi, which was done that faithful night.

  Judas Iscariote

  Truth, Father, Heart

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• Cuando comparo la vida con un sueño no pretendo denigrarla como una especie de fantasía sin sentido. La vida es demasiado maravillosa para llamarla "ilusión", a menos que susurremos la palabra con asombro, como cuando presenciamos el truco de magia más asombroso. ¿Qué podría ser más magnífico que este glorioso universo, en toda su multiforme extravagancia? Su asombrosa inmensidad y sus delicados detalles. Su precisión impersonal y su intensidad íntima. Sus duras necesidades y su exuberante sensualidad. Este sueño de la vida es realmente maravilloso.

  Timothy Freke

  Dream, Mean, Magic

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• The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Color, Ideas

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• Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

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• The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Lying, Two, Balance

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Years

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