self awareness on Blind Spots

One helpful, practical tool to understand our blind spot is what’s called the Johari Window, an image developed as a counseling tool in the 1950s. Subjects were given a list of fifty-six adjectives, a...

If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.

I (Elyse) have lived less than a quarter of a mile from Interstate 15, one of the busiest freeways in California, for about eight years now, and because of that I’ve had firsthand experience with what...

There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own chara...

One of the dangers of living in a constant state of distraction is that we never go to the bottom of our pain, our sadness, our emptiness, which means we never find that rock-bottom place of the peace...

We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The examen makes us aware of moments that at first we might easily pass by as insignificant, moments that ultimately can give direction for our lives.

Holy God, we realize that You know us more intimately than we know ourselves. We come before You now asking You to show us our sin, to make us aware of our failings, to open our eyes to our brokenness...

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

Recently at church I asked our congregation, “How many of you battle with self-deception?” A few people in the crowd raised their hands. Then I asked, “How many of you know someone who is very self-de...

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding.

To know oneself, is above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against the Truth, and not the other way around.

We are not always comfortable with the true self that lies deep within us.

Ancient Lens What can we learn from the historical context? The Books of the Psalms and David The Book of Psalms is divided into five books, like the five books of the Torah. While it is not obvi...

The final mystery is oneself.

When we devote no time to the inner life, we lose the habit of soul. If we fail to acquaint ourselves with soul, we will remain strangers in our own lives.

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, exte...

We spend the whole of our whole lives watching ourselves. But when a man becomes meek he has finished/

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Paradoxically, if we wish to become more aware of others and their concerns, there is perhaps no better work we can do than developing self-awareness. Consider the findings of a team of psychologists ...

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

He is a bold surgeon, they say, whose hand does not tremble when he performs an operation upon his own person; and he is often equally bold who does not hesitate to pull off the mysterious veil of sel...

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.