FIND DEFINE REFINE YOURSELF
Finding oneself is the first step to self-actualization, toward understanding who one is in your place and time.
"Finding" oneself is more easily said than done, since the inner and outer quests for self is a dynamic process, like life itself. We relocate.
We grow. We change. Environment changes. New coordinates obtain internally, externally; geophysically, mentally, spiritually, sensually, socially.
It is not ever easy to "find" oneself from among the ever-changing clutter, clamor, claims of accumulated custom. Some people find it to be easier to just conform to prevailing norms, than to readjust seasonally; than ever to seek.
Once one finds oneself, one must then "define" oneself. Here again, the same dynamics obtain here, as with finding oneself to begin with. You need, we need, an anchor. The ancients used the stars above to survey, to measure, count, locate, estimate, speculate.
"Man, know thyself!" Adorned the mantles above temple doors as a reminder to master first-knowledge!
One's knowledge of, belief in and faith in, God is a profound, worthy, infallible, continually-constant base upon which to might build one's self-concept and one might define oneself relationally.
After one's self-definition, comes the "refinement" of oneself, the perfection of oneself, which, like other parts: finding and defining oneself are concomitant, continually-constant, divine, duties imposed upon us by reason of our having fortunate and fortuitous existences in place/time.
Jesus said:
"Be you therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect ."
Matthew 5:48
"Perfection" presumes that one has found, defined, refined, oneself to the same extent decreed by God, always.
Amen 🙏
V
Sunday, October 15, 2017
FIND DEFINE REFINE
FIND DEFINE REFINE YOURSELF
Finding oneself is the first step to self-actualization, toward understanding who one is in your place and time.
"Finding" oneself is more easily said than done, since the inner and outer quests for self is a dynamic process, like life itself. We relocate.
We grow. We change. Environment changes. New coordinates obtain internally, externally; geophysically, mentally, spiritually, sensually, socially.
It is not ever easy to "find" oneself from among the ever-changing clutter, clamor, claims of accumulated custom. Some people find it to be easier to just conform to prevailing norms, than to readjust seasonally; than ever to seek.
Once one finds oneself, one must then "define" oneself. Here again, the same dynamics obtain here, as with finding oneself to begin with. You need, we need, an anchor. The ancients used the stars above to survey, to measure, count, locate, estimate, speculate.
"Man, know thyself!" Adorned the mantles above temple doors as a reminder to master first-knowledge!
One's knowledge of, belief in and faith in, God is a profound, worthy, infallible, continually-constant base upon which to might build one's self-concept and one might define oneself relationally.
After one's self-definition, comes the "refinement" of oneself, the perfection of oneself, which, like other parts: finding and defining oneself are concomitant, continually-constant, divine, duties imposed upon us by reason of our having fortunate and fortuitous existences in place/time.
Jesus said:
"Be you therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect ."
Matthew 5:48
"Perfection" presumes that one has found, defined, refined, oneself to the same extent decreed by God, always.
Amen 🙏
V