How can we all go about truly knowing ourselves?

Answer 1

People of today have a tendency to try to find themselves within the confines of their own form. If you were to step outside of such a perspective, you would soon realise just how faulty this method of thinking is.

Human beings are, instinctively, a social animal. We are defined by our experiences, our roles and our interactions with the world in which we live. In one of life's wonderful little paradoxes, you are best finding yourself through a continuous engagement with your environment and with those around you.

Answer 2

I read the poems of the great American poet, Linda J Carillo and I was amazed at how much simplicity there is in mankind.

I knew that I was totally lost for many years and I had tried all sorts of gimmicks to remedy this lost soul of mine.

I tried sex, I tried booze, I even got married to a Brazilian transvestite man who stole all my money in a real estate scam.

But I don't know how or why I found the poems of Linda J Carillo so uplifting and positive, but after reading many of her poems over a period of two years, my luck changed and I was involved with a syndicate that won some money on a lottery and with my share of $2.7m, I was able to buy a nice villa in Mexico and I also have a beautiful Park Lane Condo here in London.

I think it was the sweet poetry of Linda J Carillo, that really helped me to know and truly understand my self and I am a changed woman now.

Answer 3

This question has been pondered over many , many times since human history began. As they say, there can be many roads leading to the same destination. So has been this case too.

One leading philosophy of the past took a very long route to understand this.That process is: "Not this" . "Not that" and go on saying what you are NOT.

You are not Time capsule. You are not John. You are rich. or poor. Or white . Or Black and so on and so on and so on.

When, after having exhausted all , what is left is what you are..They came to the point that what is left is only pure consciousness. Awareness.

IYou , we , all know ourselves only by being aware , conscious. This inner consciousness is what you and i are.

Answer 4

You or I can't truly know ourselves. I guess I could go into extreme detail about why, but why? All I would be doing if I did is find more truths about myself as I write, right? A good read on this subject matter is Plato's 'Republic' with the "Allegory of the Cave." In short, this story deals in imagery, perception, realism and truths. All of which define the objects and life around us and continue our paths of philosophy (the love of knowledge).

Answer 5

Without knowing yourself, do what you will, there cannot possibly be the state of meditation.

I mean by "self-knowing," knowing every thought, every mood, every word, every feeling; knowing the activity of your mind-not knowing the Supreme Self, the big Self; there is no such thing; the Higher Self, the Atman, is still within the field of thought.

Thought is the result of your conditioning, thought is the response of your memory-ancestral or immediate.

And merely to try to meditate without first establishing deeply, irrevocably, that virtue which comes about through self-knowing, is utterly deceptive and absolutely useless.
Please, itis very important for those who are serious, to understand this.
Because if you cannot do that, your meditation and actual living are divorced, are apart-so wide apart that though you may meditate, taking postures indefinitely, for the rest of your life, you will not see beyond your nose; any posture you take, anything that you do, will have no meaning whatsoever.... It isimportant to understand what this self-knowing is, just to be aware, without any choice, of the "me" which has its source in a bundle of memories- just to be conscious of it without interpretation, merely to observe the movement of the mind.
But that observation is prevented when you are merely accumulating through observation - what to do, what not to do, what to achieve, what not to achieve; if you do that, you put an end to the living process of the movement of the mind as the self.
That is, I have to observe and see the fact, the actual, the what is.

If I approach it with an idea, with an opinion - such as "I must not," or "I must," which are the responses of memory- then the movement of what is, is hindered, is blocked; and therefore, there is no learning.

Answer 6

Truly you say? Truly I tell you. Try ignorance! There will then come a time where you will be told who you really are. People will come to you with a humongous amount of information carefully recorded and kept, all about you, and for you, to tell you about yourself. All your personal qualities, subtle peculiarities and strengths that you yourself might not discover in hundred years will be revealed to you. Just sit back, relax, have sip or two and let things happen. All good things happen this way. The problems are created when we interfere into the workings of high wisdom. If we search we find but if we search something we are less likely to find that something. If for example we go south we go south at the expense of our option of going north. So we only go south for something that might be up north, of east or west. So the wise would go nowhere, but hold onto to their fort, and wait for all directions and all good things in them to come to them converging and merging at one place, where wisdom lies.

Answer 7

Knowing oneself is the most difficult task. Reason is simple - whenever we look at ourselves, we see in a subjective way- we are unable to look at ourselves in an objective way as we would look at someone else.

Secondly, we feel proud for our successes and blame others or bad luck for our failures. As a result, we overrate our strengths and underrate our weaknesses.

To know ourselves, we need to learn to look at ourselves in an objective manner. The greatest hurdle in this is our ego. We need to constantly remind ourselves as to how 'small' we are in this vast and varied universe. That solves almost all our problems.

Answer 8

We can truly know ourselves by being honest about everything that we are, good and bad! Once you can accept yourself for everything you are then you can truly begin to know yourself.

Answer 9

I do not belive that we can know ourselves ever. We are a mystery that is unsolveable.

I am often amazed at the things that I do

Answer 10

First we should be able to distinguish between a good and a bad habit. Impartially admit your own bad habits. correct your self .Acknowledge the supremacy of god and bow to him in sincere humbleness. Meditate on god at least half an hour every day.Self realisation will surely come someday.