SELF KNOWLEDGE

                                   
Have you ever found yourself soliloquizing?, reminiscing through your entire life and you felt so badly, and you said to yourself why wasn't I created so handsome,beautiful,intelligent?et cetera, and you wailed: why me oh! God.
All of this will come to ruminate your mind when you have not find out who you are and what God has placed inside you, hence the why of self discovery; Self discovery is the most difficult of all human knowledge.Many live other persons lives because they don't know who they are.Do you want to stand out in the world?  Then take time to studying yourself. The first step to becoming better than what you are now is to get yourself  known. Self-discovery and self-knowledge are the stepping stones to self-conquest. It is quite difficult to conquer oneself, but once that is done, everything is conquered.

It is a fact that most people do not know themselves correctly and clearly , Perhaps no one has a thorough self-knowledge, but one can have acceptable degree of it. To some, real and genuine knowledge can be disturbing and humiliating, that is why some shy away from knowing who they really are.
A story was told of a couple which went to an art gallery museum, the man after giving a good compliments to creative arts done by people went to the other lane wherein lies a mirror in front of him, unknowingly to him, seeing  his look, he was filled with fury and called his wife to check it out, furiously he exclaimed "who did this painting?, how could they have kept such an ugly work here" the wife said, come on, don't be a fool, you are looking at the mirror.

This is clear truth that many are not happy with their external looks, and they say to themselves 'if am like this externally, how or what could the inside be like' they tends to shy away from looking within.
    Sometimes ago in a philosophy class, a guy was asked "who are you" at first he was  lost in his thought, not until, some few minutes later when he regain his conciousness, am Wellington, he replied! #One fact we have to clear here is that, you can have a beautiful and sweet sounding name, that does not really depicts your actual self,  I can all be an ugly and a bitter person that does not tell who I am and all that I can be; it does not describe me or reveal me. ''A NAME HARDLY REVEALS THE REALITY OF A PERSON"

Who am I, then? I may say, "I am a student, a teacher, a professor, a Pharmacist, a Doctor e.t.c, again my job is not myself, am not my work, am not the activities I does, though it may qualifies me to a certain degree. An anxiom says 'where we go and what we do advertise ourselves'  #One fact still remain a truth, that our real self cannot be totally measured by our activities......

   In each person, there is something of a mystery, something that cannot be easily disencrytpted, decipher and inexhaustible. Interestingly, we might say, I am my body, mind, will, heart, abilities, talents qualities, virtues, attitudes,  ambition (what I want to make of myself) and approaches.
 "what I am is God's gift to me,and what I make of myself is my gift to God"

If a holistic approach is not taken,it will be somewhat a hard and demanding task.......

 Below is a link for some astonishing facts:--STEPS TO DISCOVER ONESELF.
                      

 "KNOW THYSELF" is a popular axiom credited to Socrates

(A Greek philosopher) during a conversation that transpired between him and the delphic oracle(goddess), after telling socrates that he is the wisest man on earth, socrates replied her: All that I know is that I know Nothing, the best one could do is to know oneself, and he went further to say that " The unexamined life, is not worth Living" hence the essence of self-knowledge, self-awareness, self-examination and self-evaluation. 

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To become what I am, I must be clear about what I want to become. Goals setting is absolutely necessary. I must know the target am shooting at..........

So many persons are not their real self, they play roles. whether we are or we are not, whatever....we are not an empty sham.
 A somewhat, trinity we are at some instances "the person one think one is, the person others think one is, and the one God knows one to be "...............

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