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How to Know ThyselfTruth mirrors reality and it logically follows that the best way to decipher the truth

about yourself is b y p ersonally o bserving and experiencing the reality o f which you

are a part. Language is t he means b y which the context confronting your awareness

may be rationally, realistically a nd reverently described. Navigate the parameters of

existence through this a rticle as w ell as t hrough your personal reections a nd come

to terms w ith the essence of YOU.

Steps

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1Ponder the co ncept of the Universe . There are some who p ostulate that theUniverse is a s o ld as t ime itself. Assuming that this a ssertion is a ccurate, this w ould

suggest that time and space are inextricably linked and it allows for the premise of

somewhat personifying the Universe as "one whole being" which is g rowing and

changing from one moment to another. It also does n ot allow for the possibility foranything which h appens t o be undone.

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2Ponder t he planet Earth in relation to the Universe.

o For example, contemplate t hat the p lanet Earth is a spherical and

rotating part of the Universe, which is s urrounded by a combination of air and water,

and houses liqueed re around its co re.o The planet Earth rotates o nce each day (i.e. once every twenty-four

hours), and m ost inhabitants sp end a pproximately twelve h ours in

substantial darkness when half of the planet is h idden from the Sun, and twelve hours

in substantial light when half of the planet is e xposed to the Sun. Also, the planetEarth is o rbited b y the Moon, and it (along with the Moon and other uninhabited

planets) orbits t he Sun (i.e. one of many stars) in one of many galaxies . The Moonencircles t he Earth once every twenty-eight days w hereas the Earth and the Moon

encircle the Sun once every three hundred and sixty-ve days and a quarter of a day.

There are approximately thirty d ays in a month and there are twelve months i n a

year. The four seasons o f the year are winter, spring, summer, and autumn. The

winter months ar e the co ldest months w hereas the su mmer months ar e the h ottest.

o The planet Earth is a beautiful habitat for plants, animals, and people.The mobile capabilities o f biological entities ran ge from the ability to swim in water, to

moving around on land, and ying in the air. The Sun is a spherical gaseous w holewhich emits i mmense quantities o f light, whereas t he Moon is a rocky s pherical

object, with a reective surface, which houses a nd empties i tself of the light from the

Sun.

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3Ponder the n ecessity o f the e xistence of your biological parents t o your

personal existence. Life is uniformly characterized by the existence of opposites.Each person is p osterior to the existence of one mature male person and one mature

female person. Also, each person is e ither of the male sex o r of the female sex.

Further, each person has t he capacity to grow into a mature person with a partial

ability to produce more people provided that biological defects h ave not interfered

with such ability.

o The symbol of occupant depicts m asculinity a nd the symbol of house

depicts femininity. An occupied house is typically associated with a pleasant


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experience whereas a n empty house is t ypically a ssociated with an unpleasant

experience.o A child is an interwoven wholeness originating from the father’s b lissful

union with the mother. In the reproductive process, the mature female person houses

the u nborn human being for approximately nine months a nd endures t he suffering a sthe body o f the young person separates f rom her body d uring childbirth.

o A person is sh aped by h eredity a nd environment. Parents h ave a duty

to train and equip offspring to survive and thrive in a self-supported manner.o Existence has n egative aspects, neutral aspects a nd positive aspects

and people are oriented to perform from sunrise to sunset to justiably p artake of

life's perfections.

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4Ponder the r equirements for your personal survival a nd for that of yourspecies. Each person requires a ir, water, food, sleep, and physical contact for his o r

her personal survival (i.e. to temporarily extend the duration of his or her life).

o The requirement for physical contact with respect to survival is m ost

acute in infancy an d so mewhat diminishes as a n individual matures and so me

amount of physical contact between a member from each gender is e ssential for the

collective survival of humanity.o

However, at some point, due to either natural or man-madeoccurrences, it is a certainty that it will become impossible for each person’s power

to live to continue to exist. Coverings, shelter, transportation and an occupation as asource of nancial income are also prominent features o f a modern lifestyle.

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occupy a p erson’s h olistic a wareness. The p rimary e motions a re love,

fear, happiness , sadness a nd anger or the impulse to protect one’s e go which is o ne's

sense of self-importance. The e motion o f anger communicates that something is

unacceptable to the person experiencing the emotion. Additionally, the conscience

emotionally rewards p ersonally benecial behavior and e motionally punishespersonally d estructive behavior.

o Human a wareness is s ubmerged in mental dreams when asleep, and

is n ot cognizant of the rest of the physical body u ntil awake, in a similar way t o the

way in which a n unborn h uman being occupies hi s or her mother, and is no t

cognizant of the rest of the universe until the time of delivery.o A mother’s body i s e ither fully o ccupied, partially occupied, or empty,

and a person’s aw areness i s e ither awake, asleep, or dead.

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6Ponder the signicance of your natural mental and physical reexes . Eachperson has a n innate propensity to move away from any so urce of an unpleasant

sensation be it mental or physical, and to move closer to any source of a pleasant

sensation be it mental or physical.

o A person returning some type of harm to another who has cau sed him

or her to experience some type of harm is a n example of a mental self-protecting

reex, and a person’s h and recoiling from a very h ot surface is a n example of a

physical self-protecting reex.o Concomitantly, recognize the universality o f a person’s n atural

inclination to an expression of laughter when feeling high and to that of tears w henfeeling low. People also have a natural conguration to respond to certain patterns o f

music w ith various p atterns o f movement and to laugh when tickled. There is a

natural inclination to pursue more and more pleasant sensations a nd to avoid all

unpleasant sensations . The presence of these opposite sensations i s i nterpreted by

many t o be an innate signal to each individual to survive and to grow rather than to

stagnate and rot to naught.

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7Ponder your freedom to make personal decisions w ithin the realm of

possibility.

o The w ill of a human being is functional when a p erson is aw ake a nd

voluntarily i nitiates those activities of the brain and the body which are not reexive.The choices w hich a person makes today are the architect of the future which he or

she may l ive l ong enough to inhabit tomorrow. People set various types of goals to

satisfy needs and wants a nd work in an effort to achieve them.o Some e ndeavors ar e a means to an end and some con stitute an end in

and of itself and some are a hybrid. The general ends which all normal human

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beings t end to seek a means t o are the will to live, the will to pleasure, the will to

superiority, the will to connection and the will to identity.o Life presents p eople with problems o r difficulties t o prevent, solve and

manage a nd there are some facts o f life t hat each person must simply learn to live

with that come with the territory of the life experience. Challenges c an be intimidatingbut they afford richer opportunities t o develop and showcase strength and knowledge

and to love and be loved and provide a greater appreciation for comfort. Life is t he

way i t is and it is up to each person to love himself or herself enough to live his or her

best life.o Each person has t he capacity to assess w hat is p ossible at a given

moment, and to personally decide upon a course of action or inaction from among

his o r her options, as w ell as t he capacity to act without such assessment having

taken place.o The a bility to autonomously a ssess o ne’s o ptions a llows a n individual

to act without reference to the instructions o f another person and without reference toa pattern of behaviour which may have been exhibited by a nother. Further, as i t is

possible for the human will to dominate most innate propensities, this m eans that it is

possible for a person to opt to rebel a gainst the natural mental signal to exclusively

pursue pleasant sensations, and it is possible for a person to opt to rebel against

nature's u rging for him or her to pursue a viable m eans t o survive and ourish as a nindividual.

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8Ponder your astute linguistic ab ilities as a s entient member of the h uman

race. Human beings be long to the most advanced category of organisms in terms o fthe ability to communicate (i.e. to produce symbols o r virtual duplicates o f things o r

events w hich may be real or imaginary).

o As a sentient being, each person has a n awareness o f his o r her

existence and has a n awareness o f the existence of his o r her awareness. Whilst it is

relatively e asy for a human being to view his o r her body a s a part of the Universe,

the mind appears m ore as a "mirror" of the Universe, and this " mirror" might be

viewed as a llowing for any m anner of distortions t o the extent that people may a djust

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this “mirror” to remember the past, or to observe the present, or to imagine events

with respect to the past, present or future.o This w ould lead to the conclusion that a word is a “mirror” of

awareness, and that awareness i s a “mirror” of either the common physical Universe

or an individual’s o wn personal mental “universe.”o A person's a wareness va cillates b etween the mental realm of the brain

and the physical realm of the body a nd the voice of a person can recreate the

content of his o r her awareness u sing words o r he or she can be silent. Words a re

thought packages w hich can be used to convey ideas, feelings, and requests f rom

one mind to a nother.o This ext raordinary cap acity to co mmunicate p ossessed by human

beings, in terms o f the production, consumption, and exchange of information, allows

for two separate individuals t o decide to consolidate efforts to produce one cohesive

result, and this a ccounts for how civilizations m ay appear more and more advanced

as t ime progresses.

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9Ponder yo ur innate d esire for superiority. Each human being has the natural

capacity and proclivity to evaluate himself or herself and other human beings a sindividuals w ith respect to appearance and performance. Each human being also

has a name as a point of reference for him or her as w ell as a reputation to uphold.

o The ve standard senses u sed for such an evaluation of things i n the

physical realm are seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting and each is

sensitive to pleasant and unpleasant sensations. The eyes f eature the unity o f love

and the ears f eature the separation of fear. The nose protrudes a s a mountain on

display and the mouth is a receptive basin. The skin captures t he oneness o f

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due to the presence of the more attractive person. People admire each other and a

person may feel uncomfortable or envious i f another’s e xcellence in an area is

making him or her look inadequate in the competition for wealth, respect and love.o The t wo main manifestations o f love are as a hunger for the p resence

of a person or thing and as a willingness t o exert oneself to help someone. Time,money, products, services, compliments, humor, advice, appreciation, affection and

encouragement are a ll commodities o f love. Sometimes loving a person is

accompanied by a f eeling o f jealous po ssessiveness.o Competitive t endencies amongst people may a t times be hazardous to

the security o f life, possessions a nd values a nd authoritative protection and

regulation are often necessary t o facilitate peaceful and constructive interaction.

Traditional ethical principles p rescribe that others s hould not be extended treatment

which one would nd it objectionable to be the recipient of and that for a person to

qualify t o enjoy a benet that person should suffer the cost of it.o Each person is naturally directed to pursue life, pleasure, superiority,

connection and self-knowledge and to avoid death, pain, inferiority, isolation and self-

ignorance along with possessing the freedom to choose his o r her words a nd

actions.o Another uniquely h uman characteristic is t he human capacity

for empathy , which allows e ach person to imagine himself or herself to be another,and to assess s uch a hypothetical experience to the extent that one may a nticipate

what is l ikely to help or hurt another person in the real world, by way o f reference to

one's se lf as a p erson s haring a common nature w ith the other.

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10Ponder your natural aversion to ignorance and your natural curiosity about

reality. Existence is b oth real and imaginary o r tangible and intangible.

o A person’s physical body is hungry for physical materials, his or her

holistic awareness is hungry for non-physical truth, and both of these types ofresources a re necessary for a person to feel fullled.

o Holistic awareness is a mirror or a virtual house that reality dwells in as

knowledge the more a person observes, experiences, and learns. Human beings a re

rational organisms a nd the goal of understanding one's se lf and one’s su rroundings

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humanity establishes that freedom is guided by a fear of death, pain, inferiority,

isolation and ignorance of the source, meaning and destiny o f identity, and a love of

life, pleasure, superiority, connection and knowledge of the source, meaning and

destiny of identity, such that ignorance, weakness, ugliness, lowness and emptiness

are concealed with shame, and knowledge, strength, beauty, highness a nd fullnessare showcased with pride, amidst emotional punishment for the destructive use of

freedom and emotional reward for the constructive use of freedom.o There is a distinct difference between belief and knowledge and

between theory a nd fact. Beliefs a nd theories a re possibly t rue depending on how

rational they are whereas kn owledge a nd facts a re denitely true b ased on the proof

of observation and experience. Some issues a re a matter of opinion, personal

judgement and personal preference bu

improve the quality of mental functioning.o Life may b e a gift of love from a divine being which is t he product of

planning or it may b e the unintended product of the natural unfolding of the cosmos,but either way, life is structured with creativity, rationality and dignity and affords

much of value and utility for which to be thankful.o People are able to investigate what is n ecessary for things o r events t o

exist or happen as well as the potential or actual usefulness of things o r events.

People attempt to make sense of the mystery o f existence and tend to bediscontented to the extent that this i s n ot possible.

o There are the xed laws a uthored by nature a nd the exible laws

authored by people which bring order and dignity to existence.o Additionally, human beings t end to experience mental discomfort with

regard to comparing the vastness of the Universe with the relatively m inute size of a

human body, and there is a lso usually so me level of fear with regard to not knowing

for sure what happened in the distant past, what is h appening in distant space, and

what may h appen in the immediate a nd extended future.

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Tips• Be your own worst critic a nd your own best friend and truly kn ow who you are

so that the labels o f others h ave less p ower over you.

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Realize that maturity e ntails kn owing who you are, understanding what youwant and having the courage to handle yo ur business.

• Ask yourself, what is yo ur presence here the result of, really? Ask yourself,

what will be the result of your presence here, really? Aspire to grow physically a nd

mentally to at least perhaps i mpress yourself, even if others d ecline to acknowledge

your existence, or the virtues i n your appearance and performance.

• View knowledge a s yo ur awareness o f any a spect of reality. View ignorance

as yo ur non-awareness o f any aspect of reality. View learning as a ny process w hichexpands yo ur awareness of reality.

• Life is u sually d etailed with ups a nd downs b ut you can breathe steadily a nd

nd your ow of calmness w ithin the greater cosmic o w from which to maintain

stability a nd upward mobility in your life.

• Look a t yourself in a mirror every d ay and do your utmost to ensure that you

earn a nd maintain the respect of the person whom you see st aring back a t you.


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• Fully g rasp that life only e ventuates o ne moment at a time and that it is u p to

you to cultivate and luxuriate in the richness of each moment.

• Expect to have to confront problems a nd discomfort on a daily b asis b ut

appreciate that challenges a re opportunities to grow as a resilient person.

• Use your intellect and intuition to discover who you naturally a re and use your

imagination and ingenuity to invent the best possible you.

• Appreciate the fact that you will never really feel like doing some things t hus

when it counts yo u would need to have developed the capacity to focus e xclusively

on the task at hand, to “just do it” and promptly b egin an activity a nd to progress one

step at a time to use the habit of tolerating constructive discomfort to build for

yourself a life of which you can be proud.

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Warnings• Continually reect upon the human condition in an honest and objective frame

of mind, but be careful not to allow such reection to inhibit your ability t o fully

experience and appreciate your time to live.

• Do not panic w hen confronted with mystery o r inescapable confusion about an

aspect of reality. Rather calmly a cknowledge that sometimes s atisfactory a nswers

are simply n ot available for some questions.

• It is wise to have a plan for your life based on realistic possibilities to execute

with precision and focus t o guard against your most precious r esource of time being

wasted.

• Strive always to maximize life’s q uantity and quality, to embrace and

showcase p erfection, to love and be loved a nd to m ake se nse of you and yo ur

surroundings f or your rainbow of life to be of optimal rewarding beauty from

beginning to peak to end.

• Do not allow the burden of your whole life to rest on you all at once but instead

take life one day a t a time.

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• Never underestimate the importance of thoroughly co ntemplating the human

condition. If you do, you might miss out on great opportunities o r you might

encounter hardship which yo u may h ave otherwise b een able to a void.

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