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Know thyself.
Know thyself.
Self-knowledge includes the understanding that the self we want to know is about to disappear. What we can understand is the way we occupy this frontier between the known and the unknown, the way we hold the conversation of life, the figure we cut at that edge, but a detailed audit of the self is not possible and diminishes us in the attempt to est
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Know Yourself Knowing ourselves is one of life’s great challenges. “Above all, know thyself” is advice which has endured.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
Knowledge is power; self-knowledge is an elixir.
Look deep into the recesses of your being, and identify everything you think makes you, you.
Traverse all your mind’s pathways, and locate every desire and thought. Summon every opinion and belief, every interest and passion, and interrogate each and every one, relentlessly.
Ask them where they came from, and who planted them. Ask them if... See more
The Pursuit
I've read that over the entrance to the Greek mysteries where the words are written, "Know thy Self" which is really your teaching.
Well this teaching is neither Greek, nor Hebrew, nor Christian, nor Hindu, it is just a universal message of the truth, that's as ancient as the hills, it's nothing new. Only it works, something happens to lift us up ab
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