Aphorisms

Aphorisms, not all of them related to the Clairvision Work

Collected by Samuel Sagan

Alchemy Adventure Angels Apocalypse Atlantean Secrets Aspiration Awareness Awakening Bhagavad Gita Chaos Chestnut Bud Cosmic Fire Confessions Connection Conscience Darkness Devil Dogs Doubt Dragon Ducks Ego, Self and Spirit Enemy Enlightenment Evil Faith Fall Food Free Will Freedom Friendship and Brotherhood God Hell Help [Hugo, Victor](aphorisms.html#ZZH_Hugo, Victor_Aphorisms) Illusion Immortality Initiation Invulnerability Joy Justice Knights of the Apocalypse Lateral Thinking Laughter LBs Leadership Life Love Materialism Mathematics Meditation Mind and Supermind Money Motivation Movement Mysteries Negative Energies Opening Oracles Paranoia Parents Philadelphia Power Problems Procrastination Prophecy Relationships Resistance Samskaras Shifting Sleep and sleepers Socrates Soul Mates Sourcing Speeding Up Spirit Spiritual Practice Spots Structure Teaching Theory Time Trees Truth Unconscious USA Venom Verticality Vision Voice Will Work

Alchemy

_A_lchemy – raising the level of fire in matter.

O Lord, the house of my soul is narrow; enlarge it, that you may enter in.

(Augustine of Hippo 354-430)

Adventure

_A_dventure: anything with an unpredictable outcome.

Angels

_T_ake a good look around you and ask yourself, "Would an angel come down into this room?" (Samuel Sagan)

_Y_ou know you have become an angel when you can fall upwards. (Samuel Sagan)

_A_ngels are not as distinct as cows. (Meister Eckhardt)

Apocalypse

_B_ecause you are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm; I will vomit you out of my mouth. (Revelation 3.16)

_A_pocalypse: the enemy is within. The saviour is within.

(Samuel Sagan)

_T_he 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)

_W_oe to he who is found asleep at judgement day. (Samuel Sagan)

Atlantean Secrets

_O_ne Law, one way. He who never sleeps never dies! (Samuel Sagan)

Aspiration

_A_sk, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. (Matthew 7.7)

Awareness

_A_thought without awareness is a poisonous thought. (Samuel Sagan)

_A_wareness doesn't guarantee integrity. (Samuel Sagan)

Awakening

_A_wakening is not difficult - it is either impossible, or done. (Samuel Sagan)

_A_sk yourself, "what would an awakened one do in this situation? " (Atlantean Secrets)

_A_wake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light. (St Paul to the Ephesians 5.1)

Bhagavad Gita

_I_n that which is night to all beings, the enlightened one is awake. That in which all beings are awake is night to the enlightened one. (Bhagavad-Gita 2.69)

_T_he wise cry neither for the living nor for the dead. (Bhagavad-Gita 2.11)

Chaos

_C_haos is not just an absence of structure, it is the source of all structures. (Samuel Sagan)

_T_here's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. (Jimmy Buffett)

Chestnut Bud

_C_atch me once, shame on you. Catch me twice, shame on me. (A saying of the Linux community)

Confessions

_C_onfessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation. Lord Thomas Dewar

Connection

_P_raying without connection is like making a phone call without dialling the number. (Samuel Sagan)

Conscience

_A_clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Cosmic Fire

_C_osmic Fire - God's will (Samuel Sagan)

_C_osmic Fire - God is will (Samuel Sagan)

_S_ee only Fire! (Atlantean Secrets, Initiation into Thunder)

_F_or by earth we see earth... and by fire we see fire. (Empedocles, quoted by Aristotle in Metaphysica Book 3, Chapter 4, 1000b.)

_I_ntegrity is the ability to bear fire. (King Vasouk, Atlantean Secrets 10.5)

Darkness

_A_t the darkest of the night, the light is reborn.

_T_hose who give up at the darkest of the night never see dawn. (Samuel Sagan)

Devil

_T_he first rule in dealing with the devil: Don't!

Dogs

_D_ogs bark, but the caravan passes. (Arab proverb)

_K_illing the dog does not cure the bite. (Abraham Lincoln)

Doubt

_T_he good thing, when there is nothing to believe, is that there is nothing to doubt either. (Samuel Sagan)

Dragon

_D_on't do, let the Dragon do! (Atlantean Secrets)

_N_o thoughts, just Dragon! (Atlantean Secrets, Initiation into the Dragon)

Ducks

_I_f it looks like a duck, if it flies like a duck, and if it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. (Saying from India)

Ego, Self and Spirit

_S_elf is Fire. Fire and Self are one. (Samuel Sagan) _F_irst people are obsessed with their parents. Then they are obsessed with their partner. Then they are obsessed with their children. But who is obsessed with the Self? (Hindu saying, found in the Puranas) _A_sked whether it was true that the Self is destroyed during nirvana, the Buddha answered: It is not true to say that the ego is destroyed during nirvana. It is not true to say that the ego is not destroyed during nirvana. It is not true to say that the ego is neither destroyed nor not destroyed during nirvana. It is not true to say that the ego is not neither destroyed nor not destroyed during nirvana. _Y_ou can't find your Self in someone else.

_T_he 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)

Enemy

_T_he worst thing an enemy can do to you is to make you forget that the real enemy is inside - never outside. (Samuel Sagan)

Enlightenment

_E_nlightenment is for the cosmically stubborn. (Samuel Sagan)

Evil

I believe that the wrong God is temporarily ruling the world and that the true God has temporarily gone under. (Anthony Burguess)

_E_vil - rigidified chaos. (Samuel Sagan)

_D_ark forces, like clouds, are dark only when seen from below. (Samuel Sagan)

_A_ll that is needed for the absolute triumph of evil is for the good men to do nothing. (Emerson)

_F_rom 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)

_A_ll that comes from heaven is not blessed. (Samuel Sagan)

_I_t's not because Adolf Hitler ate muesli that we should all stop eating muesli. (Source unknown)

_O_ne of the well-known tactics of the devil: take a good intention, turn it into a disaster. (Atlantean Secrets 14.10)

Faith

_H_ave Faith and fly, or suffer like eveyone else. (Samuel Sagan)

Fall

_T_he Spirit is willing, but the ice cream is really good. (Samuel Sagan)

Food

_Y_ou are what you eat. (Hindu saying)

Free Will

_T_he Ego is the causality which escapes all horizontal determinisms. (Samuel Sagan)

Freedom

_I_f ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams,speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776

Friendship and Brotherhood

_W_hen you change, friends have to change, or you have to change friends.

_B_rotherhood - friendship with will. (Samuel Sagan)

God

_G_od: that thing which is better than sex. (Samuel Sagan)

_G_od is everything. Why want anything else? (Samuel Sagan)

_G_od, protect me from your followers. (Oregon car sticker 2005 during the rise and rise of the religions right)

Hell

_A_ny soul is worth saving, especially to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment. (William S. Burroughs)

Help

_G_reat projects, because they attract the help of great angels, can gain a momentum which makes them more achievable that small ones.

_T_he main danger, with asking for help, is that you sometimes get it. (Gervin, Atlantean Secrets)

Hugo, Victor

_N_othing can resist the power of an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)

Illusion

_A_nd what if everything was illusion? What if nothing existed? Then I would have paid far too much money for the carpet! (Woody Allen)

Immortality

_M_illions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz)

_T_he key to immortality is to have a life worth remembering. (Bruce Lee)

_T_hou know'st 'tis common - all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity (Hamlet 1.2.72-73)

Initiation

_I_nitiation begins when consciousness is separated from life. (Samuel Sagan)

_F_or the Masters of Thunder, being an initiate means being able to do anything. (Atlantean Secrets)

Invulnerability

_T_he invulnerable is not the one who never falls, but the one who stands up again each time he falls. (Samuel Sagan)

Joy

_J_oy is an act of will. (Samuel Sagan)

_J_oy is a power. (Samuel Sagan)

Justice

_M_ilitary justice is to justice what military music is to music. (Groucho Marx)

Knights of the Apocalypse

_A_t the time of the Apocalypse, everything counts.

_Y_ou react, you die! (Knights of the Apocalpyse)

_M_y strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. (Sir Galahad, Knight of the Round Table)

_W_hatever you do, be apocalyptic. (Knights of the Apocalypse)

Lateral Thinking

_L_Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. Alan MacKay

Laughter

_I_f you can't laugh at yourself, other people will be glad to do it for you.

LBs

_L_ife as heroin. (Samuel Sagan)

Leadership

_F_irst rule of leadership: everything is your fault.

Life

_A_ll men die. Not many live.

_T_he two rules for success in life are:

Never tell everything you know.

Love

_T_he Dragon's desire knows no limits. Love is the only thing that can satisfy it. (Samuel Sagan)

_T_he human mission is to turn fire into empathy. (Rudolf Steiner)

_W_hat's the point, if there's no heart in it? (Samuel Sagan)

_V_erticality gives wings to the heart, turns custard into ardent love. (Samuel Sagan)

_T_he Greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to Love and be Loved in return. Eden Ahbez

Materialism

_M_aterialism is, really, OMCism. (OMC: Ordinary Mental Consciousness) Stephen Cottee

Meditation

_T_he sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. Blaise Pascal, 1670

Mathematics

T__olle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt Take numbers away from all things and all things will perish. Isidore of Seville

_N_o one will be able to read the great book of the Universe if he does not understand its language, which is that of mathematics. Galileo

Mind and Supermind

_S_upermind - mind with will. (Samuel Sagan)

_T_he great thing about not planning is that failure comes as a total surprise. (Source unknown)

_D_iscovering a new word in a book is always an exciting experience, especially when you have written it. (Samuel Sagan)

_A_gainst stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain. (Schiller)

Money

_D_o you want to become the richest man in the cemetery? (Source unknown)

Motivation

_A_sk yourself, "would my present motivation and involvement in the work make myself interesting to an angel?" (Samuel Sagan)

Movement

_G_od dances. (Samuel Sagan)

_I_n the stillness, the dance. (Samuel Sagan)

Mysteries

_T_he oppsite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr)

Negative Energies

_W_hite clothes repel negative energies, and attract tomato sauce. (Clairvision mapping of the laws of Nature)

Opening

_A_nd the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud, became more painful, than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Oracles

_I_f you don't want silly answers, don't ask silly questions.

Paranoia

_P_aranoia is just reality on a finer scale. (Strange Days, a movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow)

_T_he question isn't whether you are paranoid, but whether you are paranoid enough. (Strange Days, a movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow)

Parents

A mother is worth one hundred gurus. (Hindu saying)

Philadelphia

_P_hiladelphia: brotherly love (The meaning of the Greek word Philadelphia is brotherly love.)

Power

_I_f you leave the power only to power-hungry people, then the whole planet will collapse. (Samuel Sagan)

Problems

_T_here is nothing more difficult to fix than a problem that doesn't exist. (Samuel Sagan)

Procrastination

_I_n terms of spiritual practice, tomorrow means never.

_I_f there is no wind, row. (Latin proverb)

Prophecy

_P_rophecy - vertical vision in spoken form. (Samuel Sagan)

Relationships

_T_here is no point being with someone you can't believe in. (Samuel Sagan)

Resistance

_T_he most refractory parts are to be conquered by fascination. (Samuel Sagan)

Samskaras

_N_inety percent of your troubles come from less than ten percent of your samskaras. (Samuel Sagan)

_Y_ou don't change by solving your problems; you solve your problems by changing. (Samuel Sagan)

_S_amskaras are fake resistance for baby Egos. (Samuel Sagan)

Service

M__anava seva, madhava seva. Serving people is serving God. (Sanskrit saying)

Shifting

_D_o not push to get out of the old; let yourself be pulled by the new. (Samuel Sagan)

_D_on'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)

Simplicity

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal

Sleep and Sleepers

_C_onsanguineus Leti Sopor Sleep, the kinsman of death. (Virgil, Aeneid 6.278)

_O_f 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)

_I_f 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)

Socrates

_T_he unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates)

Soul Mates

_H_ave you noticed that it is always when people begin a relationshionship that they speak of soul mates? Never when they end a relationship! (Samuel Sagan)

Sourcing

_I_f you want to know about something, find its source. (Samuel Sagan)

C__ognoscere est cognoscere causas. To know is to know the origin. (Lucretius)

Speeding Up

_T_ake something very very slow and make it twice as fast. You still end up with something very slow. (Samuel Sagan)

Spirit

_M_y home is my column of Spirit. (Samuel Sagan)

Spiritual Practice

_T_he best of all spiritual practices is the one that you put into practice. (From a story related to Hindu master Ma Ananda Mai)

_B_eginners need complicated techniques, advanced students simple ones, masters none at all. (Samuel Sagan)

_S_uccess from obsession. (Samuel Sagan)

Spots

_"O_ut, damned spot! Out, I say!". (Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1 - line 39)

Structure

_T_he universe belongs to those that take notes. (Samuel Sagan)

Teaching

_B_eing more interested in teaching than in finding is one of the classic traps of spirituality. (Samuel Sagan)

Theory

_T_heory is good, but it doesn't prevent things from existing. (Charcot, 19tth century French neurophysiologist)

Time

_T_ime respects those who respect time. (Samuel Sagan)

_A_s if you could kill time without injuring eternity (Henri David Thoreau, Walden, 'Economy')

_W_asted time is known by God. (Traditional Hindu saying)

_M_any people have a ten-year experience which is ten times the repetition of a one-year experience. (Alan Jones, Australian homeopath)

_B_roken wings mend with time.

Trees

_U_nlike men, trees grow in wisdom with age. (Atlantean Secrets 2.2)

Truth

_T_ruth can't wait! (Samuel Sagan)

_T_ruth - the leading of the Spirit. (Rosa Droescher of the Clairvision Foundation)

_Y_our sense for Truth is the greatest of all your assets. (Samuel Sagan)

_N_either good nor bad, neither virtue nor vice - just Truth. (Samuel Sagan)

_T_ruth and Fire, Fire and Truth. (Atlantean Secrets)

M__agna est Veritas, et praevalebit. Great is Truth, and Mighty above all Things. (Latin Proverb)

S__atyam eva jayate. Truth, and truth alone, will prevail.

(Sanskrit saying) _A_ll truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhaur)

_S_piritual truth is not to be measured by popularity ratings. (Samuel Sagan)

_I_t 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) _T_o be is to do Socrates To do is to be Jean-Paul Sartre Do be do be do Frank Sinatra (Kurt Vonnegut)

Unconscious

_T_hrough transformation, the unconscious becomes conscious. (Samuel Sagan)

USA

_A_merica has its grandeurs and its folies, but mostly it's the place where all our stuff is. (Lisa Simpson)

Venom

_T_his surely is a great miracle and without deception - that in a venomous dragon, there should be the great medicine. (Hermetic Museum, The book of Lambspring)

Verticality

_H_oly Spirit think through me! (Amy Carmichael, 1868-1951)

Vision

_W_here there is no vision, the people perish. (Proverbs 29.18)

_T_he task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. (Erwin Schr?inger)

Voice

_V_oice is the thunder of the Earth. (Atlantean Secrets)

Will

_Y_ou can be anything. You can do anything. (Atlantean Secrets)

_A_ctions are not performed for their fruits, nor even for their own sake. Actions are performed for the growth of the will. (Samuel Sagan)

_T_he will is the fire. Action is the oblation. (Samuel Sagan)

_R_ight Now! (Swami Hariharananda Giri, 5th guru of the Babaji lineage in Puri, Orissa, India)

_D_on't think about it, do it! (Samuel Sagan)

_A_sk yourself, "if it was war,would I be winning?" If the answer is yes, you know you are acting with will. (Samuel Sagan)

_G_ive your best, or waste your time. (Samuel Sagan)

_F_ew things can give more satisfaction than the completion of an act of will. (Samuel Sagan)

_W_hen 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)

_P_revent accidents - start doing things on purpose. (Source unknown)

_W_hen 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)

_N_ever give in. Never give in. Never, never, never give in. (Winston Churchill)

Word

_B_ody of immortality, body of Word. (Samuel Sagan)

Work

_W_hen you do not have the time to go to the toilet, then you know that you have become too busy. (Samuel Sagan)

_W_hen not doing anything useful, never get in the way of those who are.