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“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Independence
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Judgment
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Self-Knowledge
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Boundaries
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Confidence
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“You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.”
Rumi
Soul
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Value
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Self-Knowledge
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Reflection
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Wisdom
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Self-Worth
3.
“You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you.”
Rumi
Divine Mirror
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Self-knowledge
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Inner Discovery
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Soul’s Journey
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Wisdom
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Reflection
4.
“When you get to be older, and the concerns of the day have all been attended to, and you turn to the inner life – well, if you don’t know where it is or what it is, you’ll be sorry.”
Joseph Campbell
Inner Life
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Aging Reflection
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Self-Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Life Lessons
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Priorities
5.
“What is dark within me, illumine.”
John Milton
Enlightenment
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Self-knowledge
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Inner Darkness
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Spiritual Growth
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Divine Guidance
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“We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Intuition
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Future
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Self-knowledge
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Human Nature
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Instinct
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“We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.”
George Eliot
Secret Sins
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Self-Knowledge
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Harsh Judgment
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Sins
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Knowledge
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Judgment
8.
“We can understand one another; but each one is able to explain only himself.”
Hermann Hesse
Understand
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Explain
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Himself
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Interpersonal Limitations
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Self-knowledge
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Communication Barriers
9.
“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
Ayn Rand
Love
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Self-Knowledge
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Identity
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Relationships
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Self-Respect
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Communication
10.
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
Bruce Lee
Self-Knowledge
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Interaction
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Growth
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Awareness
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Understanding
11.
“This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.”
Albert Camus
Personal Reflection
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Self-Knowledge
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Existential Struggle
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Identity
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Self
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Truth
12.
“There’s a certain comfort that comes with knowing how you fit in the world. Anything that shakes up that comfort – even if it could potentially make your life better – is inherently scary.”
Mark Manson
Comfort
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Change
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Fear
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Growth
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Self-Knowledge
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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Body
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Wisdom
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Intuition
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Understanding
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Self-Knowledge
14.
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”
Benjamin Franklin
Self-Knowledge
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Strength
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Wisdom
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Introspection
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Challenge
15.
“The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.”
Eckhart Tolle
Truth
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Awareness
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Spirituality
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Consciousness
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Self-Knowledge
16.
“The one who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror.”
Rumi
Friendship
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Reflection
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Connection
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Self-Knowledge
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Love
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Trust
17.
“The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Aristotle
Self-Knowledge
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Self-Discovery
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Inner Journey
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Personal Growth
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Wisdom Origin
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“The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.”
W.H. Auden
Self-knowledge
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Perspective
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History
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Anthropology
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Understanding Others
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“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.”
Aldous Huxley
Self-knowledge
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Experience
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Realization
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Identity
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Personal Growth
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Philosophical Insight
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“The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.”
Bruce Lee
Self-Knowledge
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Martial Arts
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Ego
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Fear
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Growth
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“The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”
Rumi
Self-Knowledge
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Desire
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Soul
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Inner Peace
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Truth
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Enlightenment
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“The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched, everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.”
Bruce Lee
Understanding
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Self-Knowledge
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Truth
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Awareness
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Growth
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“Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.”
Peter Drucker
Knowledge Economy
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Success
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Self-Knowledge
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Strengths
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Performance
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Values
24.
“Stop learning. Start knowing.”
Rumi
Self-Knowledge
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Wisdom
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Awareness
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Truth
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Understanding
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Transformation
25.
“Self-knowledge is the basis of Jeet Kune Do because it is effective not only for the individual’s martial art but also for his life as a human being.”
Bruce Lee
Self-Knowledge
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Jeet Kune Do
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Martial Arts
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Life
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Personal Growth
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“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Self-Knowledge
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Happiness Quest
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Inner Courage
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Personal Insight
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Reflection
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Fulfillment
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“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”
Bruce Lee
Self-Knowledge
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Relationships
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Reflection
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Personal Growth
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Awareness
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“Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels.”
Simon Sinek
Decision-Making
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Intuition
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Advice
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Leadership
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Self-Knowledge
29.
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Oscar Wilde
Shallow
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Self-Knowledge
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Depth
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Irony
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Humanity
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“Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.”
Peter Drucker
Self-Knowledge
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Learning
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Growth
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Education
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Success
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Personal Development
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