A question regarding self-reflection?

Question

Well, recently our teacher gave us a topic to write an essay on. The topic is "Reflection Of Inner-Self Through Spirituality, Humanity And Power". I wanted to know that how does spirituality, humanity and power help in reflection of inner-self?

Answer 1

You have not clearly stated what exactly you want to know. Are you talking about how these three aspects shape the reflection of inner-self? or are you asking how they can help to exlpore reflection of innerself.

I will suggest you to ask this question in Philosophy section too.

First of all its very important to understand Inner-self.

Do you know there are two prevailing thoughts in philosphy about sense of existense.

1- I think therefore I Am.-Western

2-I Am therefore i think.-Eastern



their explanation would be out of the scope of your understanding. as you are bit little for it..

Here i suppose context of "Inner self "in your question is" Inner personality". Which means what you are inside. your inner thoughts and theories which develop gradually with time. Thats why i said you have asked this question in wrong section. Because According to spirituality Self is something beyond our this conscience. Self is essence of God within us. which is pure consciosness. According to hinduism we call it Atman.

"Inner -Self "that you are talking about is developed by influence and interaction of materialistic world and our experience of it. It is not the "actual-Self"(Or Atman)

For example In our inner-self if we suspect some one. What would be our attitude toward that person. We will always try to find something wrong or weird in his/her behaviour. If we hate Someone Inside.we will always be rude to that person no matter how good that person behave. And consequently that person will never be able to love us anymore coz his innerself is spoiled toward us now.

So every thing that happen around us in our life is reflection of our inner self. When we are sad Inside we feel every thing happening outside to be bad. and we make it more bad by our bad behaiour.

If we are happy inside same outside.

This "Inner Self " that u are asking( i suppose) drives our experience of outside world..

I hope you would have got some idea now.

So as it is your homework i would say -

"Sit and Think" and do it urself then.

By meditation you can both shape and explore this layer of thoughts and experiences in your mind(which is Inner-Self of ur question).

Meditation is done to reach the proximity of Actual self(Essense of god).

Let me know if my interpretation of this "Inner-self" in context of ur question is wrong or right?

Because I have Hindu background and according to its philosophy Thoughts and actions are illusiory and changeable. Self is Pure consciousness which is beyond them.

Answer 2

Your topic is covered huge meanings .

Spiritualy , Its defines " Human can achieve this reflection of inner self through the meditation . When human do the in- depth meditation self , they can feel the self power of reflection by spiritualy .

Answer 3

In Catholicism, Orthodoxy (very strong) and Judaism there is the concept of the False Self. There is some of this in Plato also. Respect your teacher but do bring in the fact that all you see is not you.



http://apocryphile.org/jrm/articles/merton.html



Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man that I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown of God is altogether too much privacy. My false and private self is the one who wants to exist outside the reach of God’s will and God’s love – outside of reality and outside of life. And such a self cannot help but be an illusion. . . . A life devoted to the cult of this shadow is what is called a life of sin. (p. 36 of the Shambala edition [2003], emphasis added)



“The secret of my identity is hidden in the love and mercy of God. But whatever is in God is really identical with Him, for His infinite simplicity admits no division and no distinction. Therefore I cannot hope to find myself anywhere except in Him. Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and fulfillment of my existence.”

http://christopherbrown.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/mertons-the-seven-storey-mountain-the-true-self/