"Know Thyself"- Socrates

   Know thyself, such a simple expression with so much depth and feeling. I have found it to be one of the most profound ideas I have ever been exposed to. To know thyself is a hard thing because so much of the self is an illusion. So much of the self is consumed with things that don’t even matter such as material possessions, false self image and ego. 
    To know thyself is to know your talents, to recognize your faults, to distinguish things that make you happy from things that don’t. It is to live in the present moment, letting go of your expectations, letting go of the person you were or the person you want to be and focusing on the person you are. 
   To know thyself is more difficult then it seems. For it takes a focused mind and a quiet moment, two things that are rarer and more scarce in this day and age. You must look at the whole package that is you, the good and the bad.  It is a break in the system. It is power to know yourself and once you do your life is forever changed.


                           “Only in Solitude do we find ourselves”- Miguel de Unamuno

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