“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

“The more you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.” — Esther Perel

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” — Lao Tzu

勝人者有力，自勝者強

“When you are content to simply be yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“There are 2 mistakes along the way to Self-Mastery: Not starting it, and not going all the way.” — Shi Heng Yi (释恒義)

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” — Bruce Lee

“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.” — Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living

“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.” — [@yoshikawaMusashi1995]

“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” — Andrew Carnegie

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.” — Leland Val Van De Wall ¹

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” — Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier

= 自我覺察 (Self-awareness) ≈ Self-examination ≈ 後設認知 (Metacognition) = (對自己) 認知的認知

認識自己 → 接受自己 → 喜歡自己

自我覺察是一種能開啟與自己真誠的對話、和自己自在相處的能力。它必須建立對於「感覺」的敏感度上，這種敏銳的感知力，能讓人察覺自己的情緒、發覺自己的真實感受，並有能力對這種感覺做出回應。與自己對話很重要，當一個人不夠了解自己的時候，是很難喜歡自己的。反之，當一個人越了解自己，就越能接受「最真實」的自己，進而喜歡自己、改變自己。

自我反省乍看之下很簡單，但其實極其困難而且急不得，因為人很擅長欺騙自己，又或是在當下會因為各種因素難以接受自己的真實想法。 ²

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard P. Feynman

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!” — Paulo Coelho

“I wasn’t going to eat it, I was just going to taste it.” — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

「灌酒/茶」和「品酒/茶」的差別：後者多了「自覺」

佛洛伊德

• 本我 (Id): 人的本能
• 自我 (Ego): 兩者衝突時的調節者
• 超我 (Superego): 人的理想化目標

[@jamesPrinciplesPsychologyTwo1995] distinguished two understandings of the self, the self as “Me” and the self as “I”, in the context of consciousness.

• “Me” corresponds to the self as an object of experience (self as object)
• “I” reflects the self as a subject of experience (self as subject)

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Master Shi Heng Yi — 5 hindrances to self-mastery ³

• “The universal law of being successful and happy at the same time means finding the balance.”
• “There are 2 mistakes along the way to Mastery: Not starting it, and not going all the way.”
• 5 Hindrances
  1. Sensual desire (pleasures & distractions)
     • from the five gates of the body:
       • Seeing
       • Hearing
       • Smelling
       • Tasting (口腹之慾)
       • Feeling
  2. Ill-will (aversion & negative thoughts)
  3. Slothful body & mind (lack of energy/motivation, heaviness of body, dullness of mind)
  4. Restlessness (unsettled/monkey mind)
     • Regret about the past
     • Worry about the future
     • Unable to stay in the present
  5. Skeptical doubt (indecisiveness)
• How to remove these hindrances?
  1. Recognize (what state of mind you’re in)
  2. Accept & Acknowledge (the situations and people to be the way as it is/they are)
     • Just let it rain
  3. Investigate (your emotional & mental state)
     • Observe the sensation and ask yourself:
       • “Why did it come up?”
       • “What is the consequence if I remain in this state?”
  4. Non-Identification (無我)
     • Practice “I’m not the body, I’m not the mind, I’m not my emotion, I can just see all these 3 aspects about me.” ^{4 5}