"Know thyself"
- Thales (635 BC - 543 BC)"
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wise."
- Lao-tzu (6th Century BC)
"Wherever we go, whatever we do,
self is the sole subject we study and learn"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The ancient wisdom traditions teach that the visible world is but a reflection of higher, non-material principles. These principles are based in the law of spiritual unity and harmony and proceed towards a progressive unfoldment in the manifest world.
The knowledge of the wisdom traditions is available to human consciousness, not merely as mental understanding but as the basis of the innermost Self in human beings and the Universe. The wisdom approach holds that the aim of education is the study of these inner realities of experience, leading to the perennial fount of self-knowledge and world knowledge.
William Blake's "Death's Door" (engraved by Luigi Schivonetti - 1743)
A visual metaphor for the opportunity of life, which presents us with choices leading in different directions. Blake explained, "The door is opening, that seems to make utter darkness visible: "Age," on crutches, hurried by a tempest into it." Above is the result of another path in life that leads to the realized and fully conscious individual, "seated in light and glory."
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"Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
