What exactly is Self-knowledge? Self knowledge cannot happen by sitting in a corner meditating about myself. I exist as an individual entity only in relationship to people, things and concepts. I can only know myself by watching, observing, studying my relationships, as well as my inward thinking. Anything else would be an abstraction. I must study myself as I am, not as I wish to be.
All I need to do is simply observe in the mirror of relationship my attitude regarding people, things, ideas, and concepts. Without judgement, without approval, without condemnation. That very perception turns out to be the action, the beginning of Self-knowledge.
Self knowledge is not a process of accumulation. It is a process of discovery, not of judgement, in relationships. It means observing the ways of the mind, how one looks at neighbors, how one treats people one likes and does not like. All these things are like mirrors in which can be seen one's real self and, if one is alert, one is astonished to discover everything anew from moment.
All I need to do is simply observe in the mirror of relationship my attitude regarding people, things, ideas, and concepts. Without judgement, without approval, without condemnation. That very perception turns out to be the action, the beginning of Self-knowledge.
Self knowledge is not a process of accumulation. It is a process of discovery, not of judgement, in relationships. It means observing the ways of the mind, how one looks at neighbors, how one treats people one likes and does not like. All these things are like mirrors in which can be seen one's real self and, if one is alert, one is astonished to discover everything anew from moment.
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