Muata Ashby > Quotes

“There are two roads which human beings can follow, one of wisdom and the other of ignorance. The path of the masses is generally the path of ignorance which leads them into negative situations, thoughts and deeds. These in turn lead to ill health and sorrow in life. The other road is based on wisdom and it leads to health, true happiness and enlightenment.”
― Muata Ashby, Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Coming Forth By Day

“Strive to see with the inner eye, the heart. It sees the reality not subject to emotional or personal error; it sees the essence. Intuition then is the most important quality to develop.”
― Muata Ashby, Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Coming Forth By Day

“O people of the earth, men and women born and made of the elements, but with the spirit of the Divine within you, rise from your sleep of ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that your home is not on the earth but in the Light. Why have you delivered yourselves unto death, having power to partake of immortality?”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Those who live today will die tomorrow, those who die tomorrow will be born again; Those who live MAAT will not die.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“There is no happiness for the soul in the external worlds since these are perishable, true happiness lies in that which is eternal, within us.”
― Muata Ashby, Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Coming Forth By Day

“Never forget, the words are not the reality, only reality is reality; picture symbols are the idea, words are confusion.”
― Muata Ashby, Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Coming Forth By Day

“Know thyself deathless and able to know all things, all arts, sciences, the way of every life. Become higher than the highest height and lower than the lowest depth. Amass in thyself all senses of animals, fire, water, dryness and moistness. Think of thyself in all places at the same time, earth, sea, sky, not yet born, in the womb, young, old, dead, and in the after death state.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self discovery.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Suffering in search of truth gives true meaning to the truth.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Evil as well as good, both operate to advance the Great Plan.” “To have peace there must be strife; both are part of the structure of the world and requirements”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Conceal your heart, control your mouth. Beware of releasing the restraints in you; Listen if you want to endure in the mouth of the hearers. Speak after you have mastered the craft.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“If you are mighty and powerful, then gain respect through knowledge and through your gentleness of speech. Don’t order things except as it is fitting. The one who provokes others gets into trouble. Don’t be haughty lest you be humbled. But also, don’t be mute lest you be chided.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“The Universe is Mental, held in the mind of The ALL. The ALL is SPIRIT”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Compared with the Egyptians, the Greeks are childish mathematicians.” - Plato”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“The study of the wisdom teachings should be a continuous process in which the teachings become the predominant factor of life rather than the useless and oftentimes negative and illusory thoughts of those who are ignorant of spiritual truths.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Seek to perform your duties to your highest ability, this way your actions will be blameless.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Take the fare from him who is wealthy, And let pass him who is poor.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“True knowledge comes from the upward path which leads to the eternal Fire; error, defeat and death result from following the lower path of worldly attachment.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Be industrious, let thine eyes be open, lest you become a beggar, for the man that is idle cometh not to honor.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“They who have received some portion of God’s gift, these, if judged by their deeds, have from death’s bond won their release; for they embrace in their own Mind, all things, things on the earth, things in the heaven, and things above the heaven - if there be aught. They who do not understand, because they possess the aid of reason only and not Mind, are ignorant wherefore they have come into being and whereby, like irrational creatures, their makeup is in their feelings and their impulses, they fail in all appreciation of things which really are worth contemplation. These center all their thought upon the pleasures of the body and its appetites.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“The impious Soul screams: I burn; I am ablaze; I know not what to cry or do; wretched me, I am devoured by all the ills that compass me about; alack, poor me, I neither see nor hear! This is the Soul’s chastisement of itself. For the Mind of the man imposes these on the Soul.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“One does not run to reach success, One does not move to spoil it.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Man is separated into Soul and Body, and only when the two sides of his senses agree together, does utterance of its thought conceived by mind take place.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“Do not assess a man who has nothing, And thus falsify your pen.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“A healthy mind is a peaceful mind. A peaceful mind comes through wisdom, not only knowing the truth but experiencing it. From”
― Muata Ashby, EGYPTIAN YOGA: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENLIGHTENMENT

“Recreation becomes a means to re-create one's consciousness at every moment instead of a means to forget oneself and to pass the time.”
― Muata Ashby, EGYPTIAN YOGA: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENLIGHTENMENT

“Men and women are to become God-like through a life of virtue and the cultivation of the spirit through scientific knowledge, practice and bodily discipline." -Ancient Egyptian Proverb”
― Muata Ashby, The Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts

“Don’t make yourself a ferry on the river, And then strain to seek its fare; Take the fare from him who is wealthy, And let pass him who is poor.”
― Muata Ashby, Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

“This is by Sage Ani. “The wealth accrues to him who guards it; let your hand not scatter it to strangers, lest it turn to loss for you. If wealth is placed where there is interest, it comes back to you redoubled. Make a storehouse for your own wealth, your people will find it on your way. What is given small returns augmented, what is replaced brings abundance.”
― Muata Ashby, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ECONOMICS