What does it mean to know yourself ? To the heart of this inquiry awaits a type of confidence in life that no other means can bring you. It's the difference between reacting to life and imposing your will against the forces that destroy beauty, innocence, and vitality. Your freedom depends on how much you know yourself.
To know yourself is the beginning of knowing humanity. It starts within you, and no place else.
To be aware of how you love, to understand why you react in certain ways, to realize all your faults, and not others. This is only a taste of what it takes to know yourself.
We have a mind caught in duality; but this is good. So long as the right part of the mind is in control. To be aware of this struggle of power is another way to know yourself; to know that it exists within you is the start of achieving peace within, and true confidence; not a defensive confidence, which is not really confidence at all, but something else.
Take less time attempting to find out who others are, and more, much more, looking into yourself. As this happens, you will know all others around you--naturally.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Another way through
It's so easy to travel along a well trodden trail. So many footprints of those who've walked the same path can make one feel as if it is the only way through. The same goes for thoughts, beliefs, convictions, and so on; all can be enticing to the average person who does not know where he is going, or what he is here for. But for the creative individual, none of this matters; only what guides him from within. The creative individual is a pathfinder. He is with confidence; in himself and in life. He looks at adversity and sees what others do not--or will not, that there is another way through. I have found this. When I was lost I felt something inside me surface; it was God. It was without hesitation, doubt, or any insecurities; this--when I let it be. I let my fears come to their end, and then the way was cleared. Do not allow so many distractions in life to hinder your vision of another way through. Be courageous, and life will smile upon you with surety in most every aspect of life.
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