Quotes About Gnosis

#1. I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

Philip K. Dick

#2. Implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)

Stephan A. Hoeller

#3. Knowledge is a sacred gem that must be conquered,wielded and empowered. To access such gnosis is not a right,but a privilege of the evolved.

Luis Marques

#4. The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret "knowledge" (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home.

Bart D. Ehrman

#5. Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis.

Ivan M. Granger

#6. Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.

Samael Aun Weor

#7. The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.

Kenny Smith

#8. Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

Carl Van Vechten

#9. Perfection only happens when one has both faith and gnosis.

Karim El Koussa

#10. The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

Kenny Smith

#11. Bass players share a secret fellowship, a sort of gnosis peculiar to their breed, a kind of smart that is hard for others to recognize or understand: the art of the whole sound. Bass players actually believe in musical epistemology, they are practitioners of musical metaphysics.

Randall E. Auxier

#12. The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God ... The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.

Ibn Ata Allah

#13. Gnostics, in general, are not trying to delineate a set of beliefs. The intent is to inspire the sacred quest for true gnosis and to provide keys through which true gnosis might be acquired.

Tau Malachi

#14. 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.

Samael Aun Weor

#15. Gnostic teachings speak of the reality and power of evil and its fundamental presence throughout manifest existence. They declare that while we may not be able to rid the world or ourselves of evil, we may, and indeed will, rise above it through gnosis.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#16. There is only one exit from the dream: gnosis (enlightenment). When you finally grasp that your existence has been one long dream, both public and private (waking and sleeping, across many different bodies and lifetimes), you transcend the dream. You

Mike Hockney

#17. Tommy Gnosis: What is that?
Hedwig: It's what I've got to work with.

John Cameron Mitchell

#18. When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.

Ibn Ata Allah

#19. Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people's lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?

Jorge Amado

#20. As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

C. G. Jung

#21. People who hear the call to conscience follow what they know inwardly
what they know in consciousness or at higher levels of awareness. I call this irresistible knowing. It is a form of divinely transcendent memory

Carlton D. Pearson

#22. To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.

Charles Eisenstein

#23. Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.

Stefan Emunds

#24. Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.

Stefan Emunds

#25. It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

Lon Milo DuQuette

#26. Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

Ki Longfellow

#27. People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.

Stefan Emunds

#28. Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye.

Stefan Emunds

#29. When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

Jit Sharma

#30. Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

Pamela Dean

#31. The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.

Stefan Emunds