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He who knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything.

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Whoever has found the world and become enriched, let him renounce the world.

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I have cast fire upon the world — and behold, I guard it until it is ablaze.

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Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh!

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Behold the Living-One while you are alive, lest you die and seek to perceive him and be unable to see.

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The person old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days concerning the place of life.

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Whoever has recognized the world has found the body; yet whoever has found the body, of him the world is not worthy.

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This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

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Within a person of light there is light, and he illumines the entire world. When he does not shine, there is darkness.

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I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended.

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Your rulers and your dignitaries are those who are clad in plush garments, and they shall not be able to recognize the truth.

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Why do you wash the outside of the chalice? Do you not comprehend that He who creates the inside, is also He who creates the outside?

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Unless ye fast from the world, ye shall not find the Sovereignty; unless ye keep the entire week as Sabbath, ye shall not behold the Father.

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You read the face of the sky and of the earth, but you have not recognized the one who is before you, and you do not know how to read this moment.

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His disciples say to him, … when will the New World come? He says to them: That which you look for has already come, but you do not recognize it.

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Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All.

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When you bring forth that which is within yourselves, this that you have shall save you. If you do not have that within yourselves, this which you do not have within you will kill you.

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Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered.

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