self-knowledge

Is it possible that we are not awake enough?

It is interesting that there are various ways we could improve our consciousness. Intellectual awakening has been described by T.S. Elliot:"the goal of our explorations would be to arrive...

How do you define yourself?

I don't mean on a job application or in a social introduction, but alone, in the silence, to yourself-who are you? Do you identify yourself with the way people treat you? Do you define yourself at...

The Machine

“Without self knowledge,without understandingthe working and functionsof his machine,man cannot be free,he cannot govern himselfand he will alwaysremain a slave.” ~G.I. Gurdjieff