--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WLeed3@ wrote: > > > > Guru Dev is quoted as saying we must learn to silence the > > mind in order to KNOW the SELF. For some that may be sleep > > "snore" others by meditation. > > Okay, I like someone who will defend their (his/her) position. BTW, > I thought it was Aristotle who coined that phrase. Or was it Veda > Vyasa, or was it Jesus, or was it the Egyptian Pharoahs, or was it > the Atlantian Priests. Or maybe, as you imply, Guru Dev was the > first to discover this.
The Ancient Greek aphorism "Know yourself" (Greek: ãíῶèé óåáõôüí or gnothi seauton) was inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi - according to the Greek periegetic (travelogue) writer Pausanias (10.24.1). The phrase has been attributed to at least five ancient Greek sages: Chilon of Sparta (Chilon I 63, 25) Thales of Miletus Socrates Pythagoras Solon of Athens Other sources attribute it to Phemonoe, a mythical Greek poetess. In a discussion of moderation and self-awareness, the Roman poet Juvenal quotes the phrase in Greek and states that the precept descended e caelo (from heaven) (Satire 11.27). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself
