self awareness

¹⁶Pay attention to yourself and to doctrine. Pursue these things. For in doing so, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

³For I say, through the grace that has been given to me, to all who are among you: Taste no more than it is necessary to taste, but taste unto sobriety and just as God has distributed a share of the faith to each one.

⁵Test yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not know whether Christ Jesus is in you? But perhaps you are reprobates.

³For if anyone considers himself to be something, though he may be nothing, he deceives himself.

⁵Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep waters. But a wise man will draw it out.

⁹The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

²Examine me, Lord, and test me: enkindle my temperament and my heart.

³in the same manner that all things which are for life and piety have been given to us by his Divine virtue, through the plan of him who has called us to our own glory and virtue.

²Every way of a man seems right to himself. But the Lord weighs hearts.

⁸The wisdom of a discerning man is to understand his way. And the imprudence of the foolish is to be wandering astray.

¹“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. ²For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you. ³And how can you see the splinter in your brother’s eye, and not see the board in your own eye? ⁴Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter from your eye,’ while, behold, a board is in your own eye? ⁵Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.

²⁸Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”

²²to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, ²³and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.

²⁴Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. ²⁵For whoever would save his life, will lose it. But whoever will have lost his life for my sake, shall find it.

³⁷MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command? ³⁸MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High? ³⁹MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins? ⁴⁰NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.

¹²Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I am known.

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

⁹holding to the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.