
21/09/2024
Th unexamined life is not worth living.
You will enter a new sphere of ineffectiveness if you live an
unexamined life. The truth, that living an unexamined life will
produce mediocrity beyond compare, is not a new discovery. The
ancient Greeks new it well. It was Socrates who said,
“The unexamined life is not worth living”. To be effective you need to examine your life in order that you can
as Socrates put it “Know Thyself”. This habit is actually quite easy.
We seldom examine ourselves since we don’t want to know
ourselves. If we knew ourselves we would probably run away.
To examine yourself is to take the most treacherous journey there
is. The journey within. The famous American Monk, Thomas
Merton is said to have once claimed, “The real journey is the
journey within