Know thyself – Pablo d’Ors

We do not know ourselves and it is urgent that we do, this is the message that the writer Pablo d’Ors leaves us.

We don’t know ourselves because we don’t know how to spend time with ourselves, we don’t know how to be in silence.

To be with oneself implies to look inside oneself as one is, with one’s defects and also with one’s virtues. Being in silence and spending time with oneself is not easy, and it generates rejection.

Meditation is to sit with oneself to see what is there, it is a mirror of ourselves in which it is not easy to look at ourselves. We do not know how to look inside, we do not know how to meditate, we do not know how to observe ourselves, it is normal because no one has taught us. Stimuli and external noise keep us permanently distracted by everything outside, leaving us to look at the most important thing, to look at ourselves.

Throughout our lives, we accumulate experiences, achievements, titles, jobs, partners, etc., hoping that all this will define us, give us an identity, but our essence is not in things outside but within ourselves.There comes a time in life, therefore, when it is important to peeling off layers to look underneath and find ourselves.

As the years go by, we suffer and experience wounds and traumas that mark us and that we do not know how to heal, we simply move forward hoping that they will disappear, without facing or healing. We don’t know how to do it, intuitively, we just keep on not paying attention.

As Pablo d’Ors comments in the video, in order to know ourselves, we must be in silence, cross the desert, remove everything to begin to know what is really important in life and live it fully.

Know thyself, it is urgent

Don’t believe anything you just read, experiment and think for yourself.

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