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O Lord, the house of my soul is narrow; enlarge it, that you may enter in.
(Augustine of Hippo 354-430)
You know you have become an angel when you can fall upwards.
(Samuel Sagan)
Angels are not as distinct as cows.
(Meister Eckhardt)
Apocalypse: the enemy is within. The saviour is within.
(Samuel Sagan)
The choice is, either powerlessness, which will
eventually lead to the abyss, or power, which may lead
to the abyss or may lead to the light.
(Samuel Sagan)
Woe to he who is found asleep at judgement day.
(Samuel Sagan)
See also: Knights of the Apocalypse.
Awareness doesn't guarantee integrity.
(Samuel Sagan)
Ask yourself, "what would an awakened one do in this situation? "
(Atlantean Secrets)
Awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light.
(St Paul to the Ephesians 5.1)
The wise cry neither for the living nor for the dead.
(Bhagavad-Gita 2.11)
There's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
(Jimmy Buffett)
Cosmic Fire - God is will
(Samuel Sagan)
See only Fire!
(Atlantean Secrets, Initiation into Thunder)
For by earth we see earth... and by fire we see fire.
(Empedocles, quoted by Aristotle in Metaphysica Book 3, Chapter 4, 1000b.)
Integrity is the ability to bear fire.
(King Vasouk, Atlantean Secrets 10.5)
Those who give up at the darkest of the night never see dawn.
(Samuel Sagan)
Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
(Abraham Lincoln)
No thoughts, just Dragon!
(Atlantean Secrets, Initiation into the Dragon)
The more perfect something is, the more active it is. Vice versa, the more active something is, the more perfect it is.
(Spinoza, Ethics 5.40)
Evil - rigidified chaos.
(Samuel Sagan)
Dark forces, like clouds, are dark only when seen from below.
(Samuel Sagan)
All that is needed for the absolute triumph of evil is for
the good men to do nothing.
(Emerson)
From the point of view of the Highest Spirit, dark forces simply do not exist. From all other points of view, beware! The days are numbered, the time is coming.
(Samuel Sagan)
All that comes from heaven is not blessed.
(Samuel Sagan)
It's not because Adolf Hitler ate muesli that we should all stop eating muesli.
(Source unknown)
One of the well-known tactics of the devil: take a good intention, turn it into a disaster.
(Atlantean Secrets 14.10)
Brotherhood - friendship with will.
(Samuel Sagan)
God is everything. Why want anything else?
(Samuel Sagan)
God, protect me from your followers.
(Oregon car sticker 2005 during the rise and rise of the religions right)
The main danger, with asking for help, is that you sometimes get it.
(Gervin, Atlantean Secrets)
The key to immortality is to have a life worth remembering.
(Bruce Lee)
Thou know'st 'tis common - all that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity
(Hamlet 1.2.72-73)
For the Masters of Thunder, being an initiate means being able to do anything.
(Atlantean Secrets)
Joy is a power.
(Samuel Sagan)
You react, you die!
(Knights of the Apocalpyse)
My strength is as the strength of ten,
because my heart is pure.
(Sir Galahad, Knight of the Round Table)
Whatever you do, be apocalyptic.
(Knights of the Apocalypse)
The two rules for success in life are:
1) Never tell everything you know.
The human mission is to turn fire into empathy.
(Rudolf Steiner)
What's the point, if there's no heart in it?
(Samuel Sagan)
Verticality gives wings to the heart, turns custard into ardent love.
(Samuel Sagan)
The Greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to Love and be Loved in return.
Eden Ahbez
The great thing about not planning is that failure comes as a total surprise.
(Source unknown)
Discovering a new word in a book is always an exciting experience, especially when you have written it.
(Samuel Sagan)
Against stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain.
(Schiller)
In the stillness, the dance.
(Samuel Sagan)
Anais Nin
The question isn't whether you are paranoid, but whether you are paranoid enough.
(Strange Days, a movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow)
If there is no wind, row.
(Latin proverb)
You don't change by solving your problems; you solve your problems by changing.
(Samuel Sagan)
Samskaras are fake resistance for baby Egos.
(Samuel Sagan)
Don't worry! It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your astral body.
(Ashok Zaman of the Clairvision Foundation)
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Of all needs, the need for sleep is the most irresistible.
Some can resist desire.
Some can resist hunger, and even thirst.
Some can even resist death.
But who can resist sleep?
He who never sleeps, never dies.
(Atlantean Secrets 5.22)
If there is one lesson to be learnt from the downfall of Atlantis, it is that sleepers don't get anything in the end. The message is eternal.
(Samuel Sagan)
Cognoscere est cognoscere causas.
To know is to know the origin.
(Lucretius)
Beginners need complicated techniques, advanced students
simple ones, masters none at all.
(Samuel Sagan)
Success from obsession.
(Samuel Sagan)
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity
(Henri David Thoreau, Walden, 'Economy')
Wasted time is known by God.
(Traditional Hindu saying)
Many people have a ten-year experience which is ten times
the repetition of a one-year experience.
(Alan Jones, Australian homeopath)
Broken wings mend with time.
Truth - the leading of the Spirit.
(Rosa Droescher of the Clairvision Foundation)
Your sense for Truth is the greatest of all your assets.
(Samuel Sagan)
Neither good nor bad, neither virtue nor vice - just Truth.
(Samuel Sagan)
Truth and Fire, Fire and Truth.
(Atlantean Secrets)
Magna est Veritas, et praevalebit.
Great is Truth, and Mighty above all Things.
(Latin Proverb)
Satyam eva jayate.
Truth, and truth alone, will prevail.
(Sanskrit saying)
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.
(Arthur Schopenhaur)
Spiritual truth is not to be measured by popularity ratings.
(Samuel Sagan)
It makes all the difference in the world whether we put Truth in the first place or the second place.
(Archbishop Richard Whateley)
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
(Max Planck, 1949, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers)
To be is to do Socrates
To do is to be Jean-Paul Sartre
Do be do be do Frank Sinatra
(Kurt Vonnegut)
Actions are not performed for their fruits, nor even for their own sake. Actions are performed for the growth of the will.
(Samuel Sagan)
The will is the fire. Action is the oblation.
(Samuel Sagan)
Right Now!
(Swami Hariharananda Giri, 5th guru of the Babaji lineage in Puri, Orissa, India)
Don't think about it, do it!
(Samuel Sagan)
Ask yourself, "if it was war,would I be winning?" If the answer is yes, you know you are acting with will.
(Samuel Sagan)
Give your best, or waste your time.
(Samuel Sagan)
Few things can give more satisfaction than the completion of an act of will.
(Samuel Sagan)
When everyone wants something, it is usually not them who want it. It is Nature who wants it through them. Examples: comfort, partner, sex.
(Samuel Sagan)
Prevent accidents - start doing things on purpose.
(Source unknown)
When you have wanted something with all your being, all your heart, all your strength, and for so many months, getting it does not always bring an explosion of joy. Sometimes, the feeling is that of a powerful momentum which suddenly falls flat and leaves you emptied out.
(Atlantea Secrets 14.5)
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never give in.
(Winston Churchill)
When not doing anything useful, never get in the way of those who are.