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11 sats \ 13 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 19 Dec 2024 \ parent \ on: If you can have the answer to any question in life, what would it be? spirituality
This is what you need to recite every now and then.
What is that from?
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This is Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man: Epistle II
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44900/an-essay-on-man-epistle-ii
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I like it. Seems like you are feeling called to connect with spirit and recognize new parts of your journey maybe?
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It may be both. Yes, I've been seeker of inner self from the beginning. For me everyday is a new journey. Spirituality isn't something very easily achieved like the worldly joys.
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I agree. For me, it has been the most challenging thing I have ever done. It requires bravery and intense amount of willingness. I had to hit a rock bottom to seek it. And I am not talking religion. That's easy. Knowing thyself isn't. And for most of my life, I had no faith whatsoever. Now I feel the best I ever have, living my best life. But it hasn't been easy.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
To know yourself, you have to be able to see yourself objectively. The “you” that knows yourself cannot be the same as the “self” that you know. If you can’t do this, you’re doomed to always just doing and feeling the stuff that you always did and felt. You can’t do anything about it if you’re always in it.