Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves. - Sydney J. Harris
The promise of Christ is to come to know ourselves through Him. It is a challenging act of forgetting self and then discovering self as we commit our lives to Him and to His Gospel. I think one of the challanges in following Christ is not to follow Him so that we can know ourselves better. While that reality and result are true, we don't follow Christ because of what we hope to gain in self-discovery or actualization, we follow Him because we profess Him as Lord.
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