Wisdom

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“The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”¹

— Kahlil Gibran

Truth always comes from
our own withinness as revelation or inspiration,
and never from another.²

— Margaret Laird

When the student discovers "God"
to be the individual Self-Spirit,
then there is freedom from 
all authorities, textbooks, teachers, 
organizations, and various experts
as the source of one’s life and knowledge…

Looking to any authority
outside one’s demonstrated understanding
is the basic condition of slavery.³

— Richard Booker

I accept no other authority
than that of my own understanding.

— Vivian May Williams

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[1] Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet: By Kahlil Gibran - Illustrated (p. 53). Kindle Edition. AX 7646

[2] Margaret Laird, We Are the World We Walk Through, (The Margaret Laird Foundation, 1993), p. xxxi AX 8112

[3] Richard Booker, An Orientation in Spiritual Science, (The Institute of Metaphysical Science), p. 1 AX 7950

[4] Vivian May Williams, There Is Nothing But God, (The Rarebook Company, 1934), p. 3 AX 8250

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