self-knowledge – Marilyn Rodrigues

Flannery O’Connor, and the kind of fault-finding that’s ok (and the kind that isn’t)

One winter school morning many years ago, I approached my group of friends shortly before the bell rang for the start of the day. One of them stared at me in shock. What? Have you looked in the mirror this morning? Yeah. What? Did you do your hair? Yes! Of course! You can’t have!…

Be a more peaceful parent – know thyself

Image by Glen Carrie. Know thyself. This famous maxim was originally inscribed into the temple in ancient Greece dedicated to the God, Apollo, in Delphi. The importance of acquiring self-knowledge is part of the human race’s earliest and most enduring philosophical tenets. St Teresa of Avila wrote that nothing helped a person to grow…