Would You Rather Turn A Blind Eye To The Path To Your Inner-Most True Nature? Finding It Too Scary? Preferring To Distract Yourself With The Trappings And Diversions Of Society?
2007-03-09 07:33:23 · 8 answers · asked by Sereny 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Foolhardy & falsepride are synonyms for underestimation & overestimation. They are the reason for downfalls & tragedies. Knowing myself is the shorts way to working on getting things & goals done. Without this knowledge I may never know my abilities, my assets, my inclinations, my waterloos, my limitations, & my frantic outbreaks. How well i know myself gives me like 50% vision of what to expect to find or settle for in this life. Hence hoodwinking at this matter will only sedate my portfolio of unclassified probabilities only to topple a disaster sometime later. So why hide behind my finger when all can see who i am. Do i have to wait to be told u can do that but nt this? I dnt think so!!
2007-03-09 07:53:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen my true nature.
Its not pretty.
And well, its not unique. I have had some rather nasty experiences where I was forced to resort to my survival instincts, and well, its a door that cannot be closed again. To think that everyone could have the same "presence" inside of them without the discipline to keep it in check, its scary.
I guess I could share more details. A couple of years ago, someone tried to kill me. I'll spare the specifics, but he was strangling me, and I was feeling my brain shut down. I was unable to hear and my vision was blurry. At that point I knew I had to act. Something inside of me clicked, and facing death, I simply freed my survival instinct. Once I had nearly broken the back of my attacker and was subdued by an outside party (at this point, all I wanted to do was to kill the bastard), I started calming down. But that presence was still there.
In our inner most nature, we are animals geared for survival. The amount of rage inside of us is incredible. And once to tap into it, the amount of control needed to keep it in check is tremendous. Much later, years even, when I was sure everything was under control, something made me lose control, and at that moment I almost hurt a person I really cared for.
Our inner nature is horrible, and the more you know about it, the less control you have over it. We're animals, and well, that is our inner nature. Society is a way to control and repress that nature in everyone.
2007-03-09 07:49:20 · answer #2 · answered by ryushinigami 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I want to know who I am, but I don't want to spend all my time doing the knowing. Spend a little time each day looking in and the rest of the day looking out. You learn the most of your true nature when you reach out to others.
2007-03-16 21:28:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I have read that idea before, but find it rooted in mysticism and fantasy instead of reality. I know enough about my true nature to know that there is nothing scary about it.
But I know PLENTY of people who are either afraid or too stupid to know their own.
2007-03-09 07:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer to know everything about my own true nature.
2007-03-14 05:07:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that I will spend a lifetime in the quest of truth.
2007-03-09 07:37:39 · answer #6 · answered by mediahoney 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have met my enemy and he is myself.
2007-03-09 08:08:49 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine enemy grows older? :))
2007-03-09 08:48:02 · answer #8 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋