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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...

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

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.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it...

Love . . . is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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...

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

These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco...

The knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are bound together by a mutual tie.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

The final mystery is oneself.

The more enlightened we are, the more greatness and vileness we discover in man.

Empathy often goes hand-in-hand with self-awareness. The people who are good at empathy are not only good at picking up on other people’s feelings, but they—they’re also good at reflecting on their ow...

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.

'He hath ever but slenderly known himself."

"One learns of the pain of others by suffering own’s own pain, my father would say, by turning inside oneself, by finding one’s own soul. And it is important to know of pain, he said."

As I have worked to clarify my calling, I have learned to pay attention to my energy levels in response to different activities. If I experience a particular activity as being inordinately draining, I...

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone...

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...

Peter's and Isaiah's Confessions Jesus calling the disciples from their fishing appears in Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20, and Luke 5:1-11. Yet only Luke makes the beautiful connection between...

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

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

Know Thyself-but don’t tell anyone.

Know yourself and you will have a wholesome fear of God; know him and you will also love him.

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

The road to character often involves moments of moral crisis, confrontation, and recovery. When they were in a crucible moment, they suddenly had a greater ability to see their own nature. The everyda...

“Know yourself” is good advice. But to know ourselves doesn’t mean to analyze ourselves. Sometimes we want to know ourselves as if we were machines that could be taken apart and put back together at w...

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 ...