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Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness
Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Reaches beyond the bounds of the outer personality into the infinite world of the soul, offering a unique perspective into how to master the components of our being.

1 "Man must choose daily whether to self-destruct or to self-exalt and whether to destruct or to exalt the God within."

2 "The great teachers of mankind have walked the earth showing men how to live by dispensing both practical and spiritual wisdom. Their instructions have been simple. They have taught men not to hate but to love. Their admonishments were codified in the Ten Commandments and in the founding principles of the world's major religions. These principles include a belief in one Supreme Being."

3 "You all are clothed by the One."

4 "'Know thyself' is an ancient proverb attributed to several sources, among them Thales and Solon of Athens (two of the Seven Wise Men of Greece) and Socrates. Cicero speaks of it as a precept of Apollo. It was one of the maxims inscribed in gold letters over the portico of the temple of Delphi."

5 "Truly, each person is the child of the Eternal One."

6 "It is well to remember the words from Hebrews: 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' When you are childlike in your faith, that faith will sustain you in your determination to find your freedom from the darkness that would hide your True Self."

7 "Yes, man the microcosm contains the grid of the macrocosm."

8 "Man must truly know himself – as a divine being."

9 "Each one can walk the earth in dignity overshadowed by God presence. Each one can embrace the gift of love, both giving and receiving that special gift of charity that is meet for all. Yes, all can espouse the Be-attitude of affirming God's Be-ness in one another."

10 "Each son or daughter of God, in the dignity of true self-realization, must hold a sense of his or her own individual mission and expand outward in consciousness through the heavenly Presence to understand the life plan of others."

11 "Truly the admonishment 'Man, know thyself!' leads him upward and onward into the unfailing light."

12 "If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself." Lao Tzu

13 "You must come each day to a greater understanding of yourself in order to be able to rightly represent the purposes of life. You are love and you love love. You are wisdom and you love wisdom."

14 "Each individual must daily strive to understand the totality of his being and his relationship to the whole."

15 "Where the Spirit is not present, where the Spirit is denied, where the Spirit is quenched, there is no fount of reality that brings the buoyancy of interspiritual and interpersonal realizations to the consciousness."

16 "The individual who reaches out from the seemingly separated center of being can, if he will, contact the cosmic center of life. From there he may reach out to the periphery of all reality as easily as the miracle of the radiant, expanding mind of God penetrates the universe with light."

17 "Every child of God's heart must discover who he is. To do so, he must know his intrinsic worth."

18 "The key to the redemption of the social system lies in the victory of divine law in the being of individuals. What the individual becomes, the collective world is."

19 "I have no longing except for the One." Rumi

20 "The greatest masters…have ultimately obtained reality through their abiding faith in the constancy of cosmic law."

21 "In the center of the castle of Brahman, our own body, there is a small shrine in the form of a lotus-flower, and within can be found a small space. We should find who dwells there, and we should want to know him." Chandogya Upanishad

22 "Those inner experiences that are the by-products of the soul's contact with universal truth will still the inharmonious voices of the world. And they will reveal the peace that can be obtained from communion with the divine intent."

23 "The Eternal permeates the substance of mortality with its essential reality."

24 "God said to Abram, 'Go to your self, know your self, fulfill your self." The Zohar

25 "Jesus' mission was to demonstrate to every soul on earth how to reunite with the Holy Christ Self. Jesus was the example of what we can become. He wanted all of us to walk our own path of personal Christhood."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite