Knowing yourself means knowing what you will never do well, what will never satisfy you, and what you CAN do well.
Tag: identity
Renowned philosopher Rene Descartes thought that you could know who you are by understanding God… he believed God was trustworthy.
Ageing. Some of us fight it, but ultimately the war is unwinnable. How can we become less afraid of something that is inevitable?
Here’s the problem with being a high achiever: it can make you proud as well as insecure, at the same time.
One of the biggest struggles you will have in your own life will be against your false self. I know, because it’s my biggest struggle too!
Where do we turn when our fragile identities are constantly in flux, and when our cultural identities cause conflict and confusion?
Better than a dishwasher, Jesus cleans, restacks and reshelves us, to a higher shelf than where we really belong, writes Sam Chan.
Are we merely “human” – just a species? Or are we more? Can we also be “dancer” – people who dance, imagine, create? Sam Chan ponders the famous song lyrics.
Radical expressive individualism – deciding who we want to be outside of the confines of others – isn’t creating the flourishing they promise on the bottle.
Modern psychology affirms the importance of ‘looking up’, or having a spirituality of one form or another, to find our identity, writes Akos Balogh.