Leaving the self out of your spiritual development results in a spirituality that is not well grounded in experience.

Focusing on God while failing to know ourselves deeply may produce and external form of piety, but it will always leave a gap between appearance and reality.

Self-knowledge that is pursued apart from knowing our identity in relationship to God easily leads to self-inflation.  It can also lead to self-preoccupation.

Unless we spend as much time looking at God as we spend looking at our self, our knowing of our self will simply draw us further into an abyss of self-fixation.

It's also quite possible to be stuffed with knowledge of God that does nothing to help us genuinely know either God or self.  Having information about God is no more transformational than having information about love.

Deep knowing of God and deep knowing of self always develop interactively.

What have you learned about yourself as a result of your experience with God?

And what do you know about God as a result of genuine encounter with your self?

Self-discovery is an invitation to move beyond objective knowledge to personal knowing.  It's an invitation to deep personal encounter and to truly know God.

Until next time, 

Stay blessed!

xo, Juliana

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