Relationship with self

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” – Kevin Kelly

In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden—to take care of your mind.

“"Anxiety about what one feels might also be seen as the spread, and the vulgarization, of the Romantic “quest for personality.” Such a quest has not been conducted in a social vacuum; it is the conditions of ordinary life which have propelled people into this Romantic search for self-realization. Further, it has been beyond the scope of literary