Tapsearch Com EditorCold facts of about knowing yourself
By Ray Tapajna, Editor, Advocate and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks - This article is based on notes from Father McQuade Personality and Character course
Knowing yourself is sorting out the cold facts inorder to uncover your life ideal. If you want to go futher in self-improvment, you must face the facts of your life. "By their fruits you shall know them", holds as much for ourselves as for others. For true self knowlege, the whole pattern of our lives should be carefully scrutinized. We do not have to concentrate on it full time for in lving out the questions of life , many answers flow. All we have to do is ask ourselves what we would think the life ldeal of a man who is this situation acted thus and so, as I have acted. Sometimes it is not much fun and if you get too upset about it , it may be time to call in a third party to help you out or just take a break from your search. The ascent to the Divine can lead through the hell of self knowlege. However, it can be done without putting a heavy load on yourself and do it in a calm efficient manner. After all a quiet wait for anything good is a good training in itself.
Occasional periods of ernest thought about your life ideal, its meaning, its beauty, its depth and what all this could do for you if you possess it more completely, will take you on an adventure like you may never had before. By keeping yourself just aware of some of the wonderful possibilities, you are into the process automatically. Frequent and calm sensible self examination will help you along the way. You will find times when you ask yourself - why did I do this or that when I really wanted to do something else. Think back to all the times, you wish you had back, when your words did not match up with what you really wanted to communicate. Human nature is funny. Dumb things pop up even when we know they are dumb. Too many times we just want to fill up space and time when it would have been better just to keep quiet and wait until we know what we really want to say. Sometimes there are times when nothing just fits the circumstances at hand. But we know in time we will be able to say or do what we really want to do or say. We must actually fall in love with our life ideal to sort out the problems that stop us from attaining it. This love ignites a certain energy to succeed. Some great person, therefore, who seems to be a good example of what we want to be, should be studied and perhaps even for a time be imitated knowing always that imitation has to turn to something that is part of your own being. We can find these examples through many characters in history. They could inspire us to take in the good we see in them.
It will also help, too, to set down in writing a description of our life ideal. You could even keep an ongoing journal for continous reference while constantly refreshing and adding to your first thoughts. You can take a short time out of the day to check off what you accomplished in fulfilling your life ideal. This way you can be also ready for tommorrow when new opportunities may arrive. Of course, being human, we will fall back from time to time. Human nature is fickled and subject to strain and stress. However, during these times we can remmember that many of these diversions are only temporary detours and we will get back on the main road to our life ideal as we recall our successes from the past or look over our journal and notes. Nothing good stays hidden for very long. It surfaces with each new day. When suffering the blues, we can allow the mood its temporary interruption, knowing it will pass and things will visualize things more clearer again. We can be blue but not surrendet to discouragment. Perhaps that is why our creator broke things up in the timing of day and night with the sun rising in the morning and setting at night. We can calibrate our life ideal this way.
Knowing yourself is sorting out the cold facts inorder to uncover your life ideal. If you want to go futher in self-improvment, you must face the facts of your life. "By their fruits you shall know them", holds as much for ourselves as for others. For true self knowlege, the whole pattern of our lives should be carefully scrutinized. We do not have to concentrate on it full time for in lving out the questions of life , many answers flow. All we have to do is ask ourselves what we would think the life ldeal of a man who is this situation acted thus and so, as I have acted. Sometimes it is not much fun and if you get too upset about it , it may be time to call in a third party to help you out or just take a break from your search. The ascent to the Divine can lead through the hell of self knowlege. However, it can be done without putting a heavy load on yourself and do it in a calm efficient manner. After all a quiet wait for anything good is a good training in itself.
Occasional periods of ernest thought about your life ideal, its meaning, its beauty, its depth and what all this could do for you if you possess it more completely, will take you on an adventure like you may never had before. By keeping yourself just aware of some of the wonderful possibilities, you are into the process automatically. Frequent and calm sensible self examination will help you along the way. You will find times when you ask yourself - why did I do this or that when I really wanted to do something else. Think back to all the times, you wish you had back, when your words did not match up with what you really wanted to communicate. Human nature is funny. Dumb things pop up even when we know they are dumb. Too many times we just want to fill up space and time when it would have been better just to keep quiet and wait until we know what we really want to say. Sometimes there are times when nothing just fits the circumstances at hand. But we know in time we will be able to say or do what we really want to do or say. We must actually fall in love with our life ideal to sort out the problems that stop us from attaining it. This love ignites a certain energy to succeed. Some great person, therefore, who seems to be a good example of what we want to be, should be studied and perhaps even for a time be imitated knowing always that imitation has to turn to something that is part of your own being. We can find these examples through many characters in history. They could inspire us to take in the good we see in them.
It will also help, too, to set down in writing a description of our life ideal. You could even keep an ongoing journal for continous reference while constantly refreshing and adding to your first thoughts. You can take a short time out of the day to check off what you accomplished in fulfilling your life ideal. This way you can be also ready for tommorrow when new opportunities may arrive. Of course, being human, we will fall back from time to time. Human nature is fickled and subject to strain and stress. However, during these times we can remmember that many of these diversions are only temporary detours and we will get back on the main road to our life ideal as we recall our successes from the past or look over our journal and notes. Nothing good stays hidden for very long. It surfaces with each new day. When suffering the blues, we can allow the mood its temporary interruption, knowing it will pass and things will visualize things more clearer again. We can be blue but not surrendet to discouragment. Perhaps that is why our creator broke things up in the timing of day and night with the sun rising in the morning and setting at night. We can calibrate our life ideal this way.
