Know Yourself and You will be known

In my experience the evident things taken for granted are the most difficult to fathom and even harder to explain. 

One of the most widelyspread platitude is "Know Yourself", it is so important that it has been formed into a platitude on the one hand, yet it is the first law to gain understanding.  It is the most important key that everybody holds, but it seems that very few search the lock that fits it.  If you have a key but you don't know how to find the lock or don't know how the key works, the key remains useless.

The key and the lock are hidden in plain sight but at the place where most don't dare or care to look.  In this case the Key and the Lock are the same, which makes it more enigmatic.  At the same time it is rendered useless by our own device.

11“For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. 12“It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ 13“Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’ 14“But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it. (Deut. 30:11-14)

(3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you (plur.) say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in heaven,' then the birds of heaven will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. But the kingdom is inside of you. And it is outside of you. "When you become acquainted with yourselves, then you will be recognized. And you will understand that it is you who are children of the living father. But if you do not become acquainted with yourselves, then you are in poverty, and it is you who are the poverty." (Gospel of Thomas 1:3)

This is the true cause of our presence here, to know our selves.  To become acquainted with your self through observation.  I hinted at this in my earlier posting Conserning Inspiration, on how to view and observe correctly.

Luke 11:34
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
lucerna corporis tui est oculus tuus si oculus tuus fuerit simplex totum corpus tuum lucidum erit si autem nequam fuerit etiam corpus tuum tenebrosum erit 

SINGLE SIMPLEX 

simple, without dissimulation, open, frank, straightforward, direct, guileless, artless, sincere, ingenuous

focus

Know yourself and You will be known

Once you truely know yourself you will see the disolving of the conflicts of your inner self and the outward influences.  If you can focus then you will no longer be disturbed by the outward impressions, by then you will be able to discern.  You will see the True You who was always there, but you where eluded from through the reflections of the mind, anxiety of the body and misdirection of the senses.  You will see All, the Entirety, how It Is.  You will be One in All.

How you've fooled yourself all this time, how the Ego has been in the way of Truth and how calm and peaceful presence You have always been, yet eluded by outward sensation, driven by false morals and dogmas, in division through intellectualism, false duality instead of Unity.

From that stillpoint one can reconnect with the outward and be Awareness through breath and heartbeat.  The Presence of the stillpoint within will provide you to set out your true bearings in Life.