Knowing ourselves as the doorway to understanding

These beautiful quotes in knowing ourselves come from the Gnostic texts. They speak to my soul.

When you come to know yourselves, you will become known, and then you will realise that it is you who are the children of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and it is you who are that poverty.

For whoever has not known himself, knows nothing, but he who has known himself has already understood the depth of things.

Knock upon yourself as upon a door and walk upon yourself as a straight road. For if you walk on that path, you cannot go astray; and when you knock on that door, what you open for yourself shall open.

Let the one who seeks not stop seeking until he finds. When he finds, he shall be troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be amazed, and shall come to transcend all things.