#self-knowledge-quotes

[thepersonalwords]

Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.

Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

[thirdity]

As children, we have all suspected it: perhaps we are all, moving strangely beneath the sky, victims of a trap, a joke whose secret we will one day know. This reaction is certainly infantile and we turn away from it, living in a world imposed on us as though it were "perfectly natural," quite different from the one that used to exasperate us. As children, we did not know if we were going to laugh or cry but, as adults, we "possess" this world, we make endless use of it, it is made of intelligible and utilizable objects. It is made of earth, stone, wood, plants, animals. We work the earth, we build houses, we eat bread and wine. We have forgotten, out of habit, our childish apprehensions. In a word, we have ceased to mistrust ourselves. Only a few of us, amid the great fabrications of society, hang on to our really childish reactions, still wonder naively what we are doing on the earth and what sort of joke is being played on us.

Georges Bataille, "The Cruel Practice of Art"

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[positivelypresent]

[quietlotus]

“In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either that key or the door to open, except yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[bouncinghedgehoghasattitude]

[blueeyesfilledwithpassion]

Change

[heartofmuse]

I now know who I am and I will embrace it with both hands even though sometimes it feels as sharp as a knife.

e.v.e.

[alazarrr]

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[reality-detective]

[philosophybits]

It seems that nature, which has so wisely arranged the organs of our body for our happiness, has also given us pride to spare us the pain of knowing our deficiencies.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[thirdity]

There is no point identifying the world. We cannot even identify our own faces, since mirrors impair their symmetry. To see our own face as it is would be madness, since we would no longer have any mystery for ourselves and would, therefore, be annihilated by transparency.

Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[serenagaia]

��I love being me, it pisses off all the right people.”

[yourspiritguide-quotes]

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart:

Who looks outside, dreams...

Who looks inside, awakes...

- Carl Jung

[sailermoon]

deerskin is a book u literally cannot recommend to anyone such is the curse of it but it really is a book about choosing to live