#understanding of self

[aychama]

Be kind to yourself, you are the only one who knows you the best.

[natsufatsu]

When we become aware of archetypes, we are able to comprehend our own life lessons, dreams, tasks, and personal talents from a much wider perspective. We can begin to understand the wholeness in which we live, and no longer make ourselves feel so isolated from the rest of the world, or from Nature, or from the people we know and love. Our painful memories, our self-negating and self-defeating talk, and our world-diminishing belief systems no longer need to control us through automatic, un-thought-out responses, for we become aware of why we are acting in particular ways through the vision engendered by an understanding of the archetypes that our particular character and circumstances are summoning forth and manifesting.

Evelyn Lim

[antieverythingism]

‎ذِکْر

He understands that his true guide is Allah alone who enjoins upon him to know himself and seek the path of self-knowing, leaving all other paths. He must see Allah through the window of his own soul and thus achieve his real objective. That is why the Holy Prophet has said: He who has known himself, has known Allah. He has also said: Those of you who know Allah better, better they know themselves.

-Light within me by Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari, Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn at-Tabataba, Ayatullah Sayyid Imam Ruhallah al-Musawi al-Khomeini