Knowing yourself

Your Essential Self - Richard Harvey

"How can we know ourselves better without the help of an specialist?" Those were not exactly the words, but this question was posed at the end of Richard Harvey's speech last Tuesday. According to what he said, knowing yourself is a key element to improve your relation with the world and with the rest of human beings. But, who is ready to shout it out loud? Who can be brave enough to say he knows himself perfectly? 

As Richard answered, it involves a lot of self work. If I were asked the question of who is ready for that, I don't think many people would be eager to go that way, at least by themselves. However, I strongly believe it is you, and only you, who must decide to solve your inner conflicts, contradictions and other issues. Humans are fragile, and they try to overcome difficulties sweeping them under the rug instead of solving the problem, because of that, opening this personal Pandora's box without the appropriate tools can cause, in the worst case, all hell to break loose out of the nothing.

I admit it may sound a bit extreme, but what I want to convey is that the work of people like Richard Harvey is absolutely necessary in our society. We might or might not need help to improve our skills to learn how to relate to the world and to the rest of humans, but when it comes to discovering the inner self, I consider that guidance is required in case we decide to start that trip.