"Know Thyself"

[Ankh]

so we have this famous dictum of 'know thyself".   I think most of us here would recognise it's value.

And yet, what is the opposite of such seeking?  is that the sinkhole of indifference?  That is, not choosing to acknowledge and comprehend the deeper aspects of self, but rather, choosing to stay on a superficial level?

The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.

This came to mind:

"Those truly helpless are those who have not consciously chosen but who repeat patterns without knowledge of the repetition or the meaning of the pattern."

It's really sad to see someone be stuck in the same pattern, repeating it over and over again, bringing suffer and whatnot to itself (and others probably), and that this entity has absolutely no understanding of neither the pattern or its repetition which plays again and again.