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Carer. Student. NLP Practitioner.
Writer of What Gives You The Right To Talk Of Such Things? @ Balboa Press / Hay House

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“The mind is educated by taking on knowledge; the heart is educated by casting off error.”

~Manly P. Hall

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Otium sine litteris mors est — “Leisure without literature is death.”

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Per Aspera ad Astra (HD Wallpaper) — “Through Hardships to the Stars”

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Pathemata.
Mathemata.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

Skin in the game.

Food for thought.

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1859
Charles Dickens

#reminders

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Ancient remedies for modern-day problems.

Plotinus. The Enneads.

Curiousity. Inquiry.

Philosophy.

Know thyself.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Most of you know the Delphic maxim "ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟΝ" (Know Thyself). In the grammar of the Greek language, the verb is in a tense no longer used today: the Aorist (past) Imperative (and on 2nd person singular, active voice). The question now is: how is it possible to command someone in the aorist (past) tense?

Commanding someone in the aorist is very powerful, yet quite common in "Ancient" Greek. It is a deliberate choice that changes the very nature of the exhortation.

In Greek Philosophy, the Delphic maxims are considered "commands of Apollo." Through these maxims, the philosophers demand that you, the student, become better.

So when it commands you to know yourself:

1. It is not interested in duration, but in the result or the beginning of the action.

2. "Begin to know" - "Come and know."

3. Do it. Now. Do not postpone it.

They did not want a mild, philosophical piece of advice like "try to know yourself a little every day." The Delphic maxim commands you and says:

"Wake up. Finally realize who you really are YESTERDAY."

Proclus writes:

"Just as the inscription at the entrance to the Eleusinian sanctuary announced that the uninitiated and the unperfected should not enter the inner sanctum, so too the inscribed ‘Know Thyself’ at the entrance of the Delphic temple declared the way of the upward journey toward the Divine and the most beneficial and effective path that leads to purification. It says, almost plainly to those who can understand, that the one who knows himself, beginning from his own hearth, can come into contact with the god who reveals the whole truth and is the leader of the purifying life. On the contrary, the one who is ignorant of who he is, being uninitiated and unperfected, is unfit to partake in the providence of Apollo."

- Proclus, Commentary on Plato’s First Alcibiades, Book I, 5.3–5.12

And we also have this passage from Xenophon, where Socrates, the main teacher of the maxim "Know Thyself", says the following:

SOCRATES:
Tell me, Euthydemus, have you ever visited the Oracle at Delphi?

EUTHYDEMUS:
Yes, by Zeus, I have visited it twice.

SOCRATES:
So when you entered the temple, you had the opportunity to see the inscription "Know Thyself"?

EUTHYDEMUS:
Of course I saw it.

SOCRATES:
And after that, what did you do? Did you take care to follow the command of the inscription, or did you make no attempt at all to approach yourself, so as to see who you really are?

EUTHYDEMUS:
By Zeus, not at all. For I am not so childish or ignorant as to not know who I am. I assumed that I knew myself. I mean, is it possible not to know oneself?

SOCRATES:
But perhaps what you know is only the name of yourself, that is, your external characteristics, while you remain ignorant of your real abilities (those hidden in your soul). Shouldn’t you examine yourself in the same way one does when wanting to buy a horse? Besides its external appearance, one must also be interested in a series of particular traits and qualities: whether it is obedient and disciplined or disobedient and unruly; whether it is strong and manageable or weak and difficult to control; and also whether it can run fast or tires easily. For just as one would want to learn all these qualities of a horse, in the same way one must want to learn the corresponding expected qualities of one’s own self. Do we really know, then, what our own worth and power are?

EUTHYDEMUS:
It seems, Socrates, that whoever does not proceed to apply "Know Thyself" will necessarily remain ignorant of his own inner powers as well.

- Xenophon, Memorabilia, Book IV, 24

Thanks for reading me,

Homer Pavlos

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Get knowledge.

Get understanding.

Get wisdom.

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Ancient book frontispiece (1496) with five Latin proverbs you should remember:

1. Hominēs et arborēs a frūctibus cognōscuntur — “Men and trees are known by their fruits.”

2. Per Deum omnia facta sunt, et sine Ipsō nihil factum — “Through God, all things were made, and without Him, nothing was made.”

3. Rēs cognōscuntur per terminōs — “Things are known by their limits.”

4. Vīs amārī, amā — “If you want to be loved, love.”

5. Porrige porrigentī — “Give to the one who gives.”

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"Learning never exhausts the mind,"

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Reconnect.

Heal.

Reestablish.

Restore.

Wholesome.

Wholeness.

E Pluribus Unum.

#knowthyself

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ἓν τὸ πᾶν — Omnia ūnum — “The All is One”

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Nōsce tē ipsum — “Know thyself”

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Wayne Dyer

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Knowledge is not power.

Applied knowledge is.

Move your body. Clear your mind.

Push yourself. Know thyself.

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“The conflict in the world is nothing but a symbol of the conflict inside of people.”

~Manly P. Hall

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Quære vērum — “Seek after truth.”