Samael Aun Weor Quotes

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it.

Be humble in order to attain enlightenment. Thus, after attaining it, be more humble still.

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

Whoever has the mind stuffed with theories and more theories, suffers horribly because he is unable to realize nothing of what they have read..

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.

The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

Only the great Souls can and know how to love.

When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within.

We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and not even suspect that we are asleep.

To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.

Sexual pleasure is a legitimate right of the human being.

Death is the return to the very beginning of one's life, with the possibility of repeating it again.

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

The heat of charity opens the doors of the heart. The heat of charity brings solar faith to the Mind. Charity is Conscious Love.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

The celibate must firmly keep himself in Brahma Charya (i.e. chastity) until his wife arrives, he has to firmly establish himself in Brahma Charya and it is not possible to remain in Brahma Charya if we do not know how to transmute the sexual energy.

Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.

Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.

The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

The orgasm is an explosion of energy that escapes from the conductors that should manage it. That overcharge spills out of the sexual organs, out of the chakras, and into the surrounding ganglia, into the nadis. This is why people experience tremors, shaking, vibrations, involuntary shudders, shouts, screams, etc: the energy of Eden is racing thorugh the nervous systems. We think it is "pleasurable," because the root energy is from Eden (bliss), but what we do not realize is that a short circuit destroys the conductor. That is, the orgasm destroys the nervous system, gradually.

This is why people who have a lot of sex, gradually lose their sexual power. People who repeat the orgasm gradually lose the ability to have it. They become impotent or become indifferent to sex because their energetic centers become burned out. Now, this is why everybody takes chemicals to stimulate their sex drive. This is why pornography became so popular, because it is an artificial stimulation for the sexual energy. This is also why people move towards more and more extreme sexual interests, because the areas that stimulated them previously become "burned out.

Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, the afternoon and almost the whole night until dawn ...

The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.

In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

Wherever a ray of solar light can reach, man can reach.

The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.

Patience is the Gnostic's scale and the humble the garden's door.

In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the patience of the Saint Job is needed. In order to walk the path of the edge of the penknife the tenacity of the well tempered steel is needed.

We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.

It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.

The physical union of a man and a woman, in essence, is a supernatural act, a reminiscence of paradise, the most beautiful of all the hymns of praise dedicated to the Creator by the creature; it is the alpha and the omega of all creation.

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

Inside the man all the elements that form the Universe and all the existing principles are interrelated: He touches the earth with the feet; with the arms the air and with the head the sky and through the Spirit he gets in touch with the Divinity, where he comes from and where he should return.

Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.

Life is an eternal instant.
Chronological time does not exist.

When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves.

The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.

Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

Each atom in Nature is the body of a virginal sparkle that incessantly evolves through time and space.

The true Human Being is the Innermost, He does not have problems. The problems are from the mind.

Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.

It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way.

The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.

As long as we continue to be imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than impossible to experience that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real.

Sex is the power of the soul.

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders ...

The strong tendency to blame others is a barrier, an obstacle for the comprehension of our own mistakes.

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.

The advanced organizations of Thinking must teach with their example by cooperating. Every human organization can cooperate in one or another way for the common good. We are a family and we should not miserably torment each other's life because that's absurd.

Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law.

When wholeheartedly we help someone, when in a natural and spontaneous way we care for the tree and water the flowers in the garden even though no one required us, there is authentic generosity, genuine sympathy, true love.

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul.

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

Do no depend on others' ideas or concepts because inside yourself is the Wisdom. For the Few.

It's impossible to be refined when we don't know how to listen.

All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.

May peace reign in all hearts; let us not forget that peace is light. Let us not forget that peace is an Essence emanated from the Absolute. It is light emanated from the Absolute. This light is the light of the Ancient of Days. Christ said: 'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.' [John 14:27]

Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.

The Intuitive one can read where the Master doesn't write and listen where the Master doesn't talk.

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours.

Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.

We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society.

We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams.

The healthy man is the thin man. But you don't need to go hungry for it: Remove the flours, starches and sugars; that's all.

Wherever we direct our attention, we spend creative energy. We can save creative energy if we divide attention, if we do not become identified with things, people, and ideas. When we become identified with things, people, and ideas, we then forget our Self and lose creative energy in the most pitiful way. It is essential to know that we need to save creative energy in order to awaken the consciousness, and that the creative energy is the living potential, it is the vehicle of the consciousness, it is the instrument in order to awaken the consciousness.

In order for love to exist, there has to be an affinity of thoughts, affinity of feelings, identical preoccupations.

Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.

The Woman, the Eternal Feminine envelops with her gaze of light the entire planet.

People have the false habit of putting an artificial gap between the spiritual and the financial. We cannot accept this habit because life is an integral whole which we should understand deeply.

Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.

We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.

All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

We must love all human beings, giving even our last drop of blood for all our siblings of this great human family.

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.

The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.

The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.

The pain does not bring perfection because the pain is from Satan. The Great Divine Reality is happiness, peace, abundance and perfection. The Great Reality can't create the pain. What is perfect can't create pain. What is perfect only conceives happiness.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

May the star of Bethlehem shine in your path.