Smart?
Good.Looking?
Athletic?
Everything.working?
Great.Parents?
Functioning.Family?
The.best.schools?
Social.and.Ecomomic.Elite?
Great.Country?
Mild.Envrioment?
Great.Employment?
Spiritual.Belief?
The most essential knowledge of all is self-knowledge, self-understanding which leads to wisdom compassion and freedom.
In this materialistic, consumer society, we often begin to think that money and material things are more important than our relationship with other human beings.
We need to realize that we are an intricate part of the whole. And despite our busy, mobile lives our bodies still require the elements of air, food, water, heat, rest and exercise.
Because we think so much, an essential aspect of self-knowledge is to put thinking in the right place. Thinking is a response to memory, past experience and knowledge.
Time is really a delusion created by thinking! And it is because of thinking that there's so much anexiety, worry, insecurity and phychological fear in human consciousness.
Who we are or who we think we are is just a collection of memories and past experiences. In other words, the self or ego is just a construction put together by the thinking process as memory, past experience and knowledge. That's all
As the thinking process projects "itself" into the future, thinking projects the "individual" into the future with hopes and dreams, personal goals, plans and ambitions, fears and anxieties.