Know Yourself Use the arrows for more inspiration On this site you will find pages full of ways and inspiration for the way inward and I will use my own story as an example. How? Get to know yourself better. NOSCE TE IPSUM 

Know Yourself, 

Temple Apollo 
in Delphi 

7th century BC 'Above all, do not think that the famous “know thyself” is said only to curb our self-consciousness. It is also meant to know our good gifts.'

- Cicero, Letters to my brother Quintus, (book 111) Know Yourself - Adagia I 6,95

'A call for modesty and a sense of measure. That we pursue nothing too big for us or beneath our dignity. ...

Desiderius Erasmus - Adagia p. 119 Free Yourself from Inner Slavery! Free Yourself from Inner Slavery! The first reason for inner slavery for man is his ignorance and, above all, his ignorance regarding himself. Without self-knowledge, without understanding the workings and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, cannot rule himself and will always remain a slave, a plaything of the forces acting upon him. Therefore, in the ancient teachings, the first requirement at the beginning of the path to liberation was, “Know thyself". The main method for study of oneself is self-perception. Oespensky p.119 Free Yourself from Inner Slavery! George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
Greek Armenian philosopher
mystic, writer, composer, and more. Pjotr Demjanovitsj Oespenski
Russian esoteric writer and philosopher,
Gurdjieff was his teacher Some spiritual texts speak of poverty, not in the material sense, but immaterial. They then speak of a lack of self-knowledge. Then you live in poverty. So self-knowledge enriches man. '...
If you know yourself ,
then you will also be known,
and you will realize
that you too are a child of the living Father.
But if you do not know yourself, then you are in poverty.

Then you yourself are poverty.


LG03 - translated by Bram Moerland “Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.” by Emily McDowell
 Finding yourself I was shaped by my parents. 

They gave me a name. 

Encouraged me to play tennis. Discouraged to play soccer.
Street dancing was not an option.

They took me on faraway trips and to cultural events.

Motivated me to do especially well in school, which was priority No. 1.

They kept me from becoming a top athlete.

They fed me and taught me how to cook. 

They dressed me. 

In addition, I was shaped by television, by school, by .... 


All outside influences. 



But that is not who I am.
I am not the person shaped by someone other than myself. 


How do I find that one? How do I get to know myself? 


In part, I already know it.


I can know myself better.
by Me
 Getting to know Myself

Increasing self-awareness, getting to know yourself better and thus awakening can be done in different ways.
Some ways are active (Yang, Male, Doing) and some are passive (Yin, Female, Being)

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