“Knowing Yourself Is The Beginning Of All Wisdom”

Aristotle

This quote from Aristotle and he says knowing yourself is the beginning of all

wisdom, what a lovely quote that is what a beautiful this man is saying don’t you have

wisdom until you know yourself wisdom doesn’t start until you know who you are and

isn’t that the truth. I mean you could try to be someone else as much as you want but

you just trying to be someone else you just number two you know sometimes don’t even

number two but other people trying to be that person but if you be yourself and I don’t

mean it in that cliché way I mean like I mean you can model people you know you can’t

have you know I’m saying people that you look up to and you think are cool you can

have your mentors you can have your you know arm role models and stuff like that. But

what I’m saying is you still have to dig deep and understand, and still have to get deep

and understand who you are and understand why you say the things you say why you

do the things they do why you act the way you acts you need to write it you know you

need to go back and see what is do you believe. And the quote says that the relationship

with yourself is one of the most important relationships in your life. If you do not have full

understandings of who you are then how are others supposed to get to know you?

Building a healthy and positive self-esteem is probably the most important factor that

leads to happiness and living a fulfilling life. Having a healthy self-esteem requires self-

acceptance, self-knowledge, self-respect, empathy, compassion, and personal

understanding. Sometimes we do not know how to embody these things which is okay.

The first step is trying. Try opening up to a family member, friend, or maybe a mental

health professional. Either way, it’s worth it to get on the path of happiness.
Today is never too late to “let go” and activate our path in an individualistic way. If we

do so life has a way of leading us to more joy, prosperity and satisfaction. Life in its

entirety is a living thing and a true expression of a higher energy which creates our

paths of power.

Instead of forcing things to happen, let’s try to get into the flow of resting, listening and

waiting. Find yourself, follow the right path and let your life flow.

“An Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living For”

Socrates

“An Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living For” the sentence well I think Socrates

meant by the unexamined life is not worth living for if you don’t think about your values
and your aims your goals and what sort of person to be and how to live your life then

you’ve yielded up the direction of your life to chance and to others and the decisions

that other people make and then you’re no better rather than animal being driven about

by thing that happen around you. I mean first of all that the phrase the examined life I

think we tend to think of it as being about self-examination and self-understanding

noticing we should limit it in that way examining life is about examining all parts life

science is part of examining life. It’s examining the world around us and that feeds into

self-understanding obviously because we are parts of a natural world but yet we can

examine one’s own I think in any number of ways if you read literature in a sense you

are examining life if you sit down and talk with friends often you are examining life. So I

think we shouldn’t get the idea that the examined life has to entail has to involve a high

level philosophy I think that it can involve many different things. But isn’t be saying that

the examined life is worth doing just to examine life it doesn’t have to lead with the one

thing another just a mere example not the mere the examination of it in itself is sufficient

yes I think there’s something in this view what human made human beings distinctive

was their capacity for rational thought and he thought that any creatures functions and

flourishes its best when it does what is distinctive to its own nature so in that sense if we

are truly human we have to use that active part of us which is distinctively human we

have to use our rational capacities so it’s by thinking and examining that we become

most fully human. In this philosophical idea the idea of nobility suggests elevation of the

few over the ignoble many, which is why if you scratch many a noble ideal you can sniff

the unmistakable aroma of elitism. The ideal of the examined life is noble for precisely

this reason. It sounds unobjectionable: an encouragement to be fully human, to use our

highly developed faculty of thought to raise our existence above that of mere beasts.

For if we don't think, we are no more than animals, simply eating, sleeping, working and

procreating. And though it may be a bit strong to say such lives are not worth living, all

but a minority of ethical vegetarians would agree that they are much less valuable than

fully human ones. However, there would be no need to exhort us to examine our lives if

we did not think that there were human beings who do not, and so have valueless,

bestial lives. The noble ideal has a harsh implication: some in the herd of humankind

may as well be animals, or dead. For though almost everyone questions the way they

live at some point, it is probably only a minority who subject it to Socratic scrutiny. The

bulk of humankind, today and in history, has been far too busy struggling for survival to

engage in lengthy philosophical analyses. So if an examined life is one in which more

than just a little investigation takes place, by implication, huge swathes of humanity are

ignorant beasts.