self-knowledge

• “He was certain self-knowledge and not vanity guided him.”

  Simon & Schuster: O: A Presidential Novel

• “He just found it hard to resist displaying the intelligent scrutiny he always brought to his endeavors and the self-knowledge that informed it, and which he believed he possessed in greater measure than most people did.”

  Simon & Schuster: O: A Presidential Novel

• “But how you are to grow in self-knowledge, become more introspective, discover the authentic treasures of insight and of compassion and of spiritual discernment and of a deep bond to other solitary individuals, how in fact can like call out to like without reading, I do not know.”

  A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why

• “I hope I have enough self-knowledge to recognise that mine is the instinctive response of someone trying not to be seduced.”

  The Guardian: Restaurant review: the Kingham Plough

• “Real self-knowledge is an invaluable guardian against self-deception mechanisms of the ego, and any true and beneficial culture of transformation will teach us this.”

  The Huffington Post: Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego

• “The Bhagavad Gita's prescription to combat the narcissistic ego is to create a culture of introspection and self-knowledge whose basic components lie in courage and humility.”

  The Huffington Post: Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego

• “The Bhagavad Gita's prescription to combat this crafty enemy within us is to create a culture of introspection and self-knowledge whose basic components lie in courage and humility -- a healthy skepticism of our own "goodness" combined with an unending desire to learn more about ourselves.”

  The Huffington Post: Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego

• “After a few years I came to recognize that our efforts weren't only about planting trees, but were also about sowing seeds of a different sort -- the ones necessary to give communities the self-confidence and self-knowledge to rediscover their authentic voice and speak out on behalf of their rights (human, environmental, civic, and political).”

  The Huffington Post: Wangari Maathai: Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth

• “Despite his claims to recovery, we may be unlikely to turn to him for advice based on self-knowledge and penetration of the human situation.”

  The Huffington Post: Stanton Peele: How Could Russell So Badly Misjudge His Life?

• “It requires radical self-knowledge and self-perception and self-scrutiny and involves simultaneously acting and reacting to the feedback your audience provides.”

  The Huffington Post: Zac Hill: Bridging the Gap: Gretchen Skogerson's Strange Play

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