Self-Knowledge
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Date
2011
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
The self is a concept which defines what is most personal and unique about an
individual. The self includes the body, mind, and spirit; abilities and limitations; and repressed
and remembered experience both positive and negative, bodily experience, relational experience,
cultural experience, religious experience. I think there is a great need to know and to accept
ourselves just as we are. Those of us with power and social standing have subtle ways of hiding
our inner handicaps, our difficulties in relationships, our inner darkness and violence, our
depression and lack of self-confidence. When all is well we may fall into conceit or pride; when
there are difficulties or failures, we can fall into self-depreciation and depression.
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pastoral ministry, self-knowledge, Spirituality