In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.
T. Thorn CoyleTags: self-knowledge magick spiritual-growth
Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.
Kiana DavenportTags: self-knowledge
To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness - for consciousness -is- a surface - must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So many dangers that the instinct comes too soon to "understand itself" --.
Meanwhile, the organizing idea that is destined to rule keeps growing deep down - it begins to command, slowly it leads us back from side roads and wrong roads; it prepares single qualities and fitnesses that will one day prove to be indispensable as a means toward a whole - one by one, it trains all subservient capacities before giving any hint of the dominant task, "goal," "aim," or "meaning.
Tags: self self-knowledge self-realization
I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
Charlotte ErikssonTags: life growing-up learning self-knowledge expectations self-development knowing-who-you-are find-your-passion find-yourself
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.
Charlotte ErikssonTags: life growing-up poetry solitude journey change living growth self-knowledge london self-development leaving life-story spiritual-growth musician changing travelling songwriter sweden the-great-perhaps
We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.
Bryant McGillTags: consciousness kindness love individualism self-knowledge care awareness-and-attitude
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
Daniel WoodrellTags: self-knowledge depression hillbilly-noir
Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur."
("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.")
[Journal entry, 10 December 1801]
Tags: happiness reality self-perception self-knowledge unhappiness reality-check
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
J.I. PackerTags: sin guilt self-knowledge repentance christ
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: self-knowledge
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