Daily Meditation: Monday, February 24, 2025

Self-knowledge - knowledge of who we are

02/24/2025

If you do not know yourself well, if you are not clearly aware of your qualities and failings, your abilities and weaknesses, you cannot hope to succeed or live in harmony with other living creatures, and this state of affairs will inevitably lead to complications, confrontations and quarrels. We can even conclude that most accidents and tragedies in the world are due to a lack of self-knowledge. A knowledge of who we are, of what we represent, and of what we are or are not capable is precisely the thing about which we are endlessly mistaken. And this is very serious, for herein lies every conceivable danger. Every undertaking, every personal contact, everything we do runs the risk of failure if it is not solidly based on a clear knowledge of ourselves.