Continuing from A mental crisis triggered my reset:
I see it more as the beginning of a period where you start dedicating time and energy to yourself… to paying attention to yourself… to knowing what we like and what we don’t, and acting accordingly… but fundamentally, that path begins when we start asking ourselves questions about who we are…
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Great to hear from you after such a long time, let’s get back to it…
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Let’s go, we’re coming back with everything, Mauro!!! Best regards to the family!!
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I see self-discovery as going to the very essence of who we are: Who am I? What did I come to this world to do? The answers are within each one of us. It is looking inward and fully remembering what we are, the part of the Being…
I believe that self-discovery is a process in which there is always something more to learn → something more to remember.
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What do we know about ourselves at birth, and what does everyone else know?
Who chooses our name, where we live, what we eat, and how we spend our time during our first years of life?
When does that change, if the same people—or others—choose where we study or what we do for a living, where and how we live, or what schedules we follow, for the better part of the time?
How many decisions do we make for ourselves, and how many to fulfill a role or satisfy someone else’s desires?
What happens if we stay close to the same people most of the time?
To truly know yourself, you just need to literally detach from the rest. The rest is like everything else; everyone has their own path and their own merit 
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Delving a bit deeper, to achieve self-knowledge, we must attain both internal and external independence. Internal, in terms of our mental and emotional state, knowing how to manage our emotions.
And external, with respect to others.
Only after that will we be clear on who we are 
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Yep! Integrity.
It is what makes us human, as opposed to depending on a salary, a partner, sugars, fats, compulsive sex, cocaine, toxins in the form of cigarettes, etc.
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Self-discovery is just as much about validating oneself.
Trading, creating art (without any expectations whatsoever), being alone, meditating.
Letting go of everyone else.
Walking, going into the sea, running, climbing, surfing waves, even crying with emotion in the face of that vastness.
I have known myself ever since I accepted that the only thing I know is that I will die.
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Bringing up Mati’s idea about self-acceptance, self-knowledge, and death, I think it is all related.
Regardless of how we believe things are—which is very personal—I don’t believe I was born as a „blank slate.“ Four-year-olds who play the piano perfectly, or similar cases, come from somewhere; they had to cultivate virtues in past lives. But it is not that direct; that is to say, perhaps they weren’t pianists, not even in their immediate past life. Perhaps what they did was be great „listeners“ to people and helped in that way with generosity by offering their time. According to karma, merits and virtues function this way life after life. In the Sutras, the historical Buddha (the one of our world) explains these correspondences between what we gave and what we received, and what we can give and what we will receive.
So, for me, self-knowledge is probing what I do and how I am now to find clues about what I must have done right and wrong in past lives. And that gives me the responsibility to improve in this life so that my next ones will be better, for me and for those around me and the world as a whole. Each time I will become greater until I manage to disappear and liberate myself.
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To know oneself is to meet oneself, separate from others. And simultaneously, to understand that we are truly one.
I integrated my shadow this year, after learning I was going to be a father and understanding that on the other side, I was attracting the same things I attracted here (by not fully recognizing myself and depending on others).
Initially, I depended economically, then emotionally. And then others depended on me (!!!)
Today I cleansed myself, through very deep and constant meditation, living in retreat and alternating that with living in community.
I traveled a lot, as always. I continue and will continue to do so, only now I have found that I live in a home that is here, with me and wherever I choose to go.
Someone who doesn’t truly know themselves is dangerous, and that is what society generates daily.
Social media, screens, scrolls, constant comparisons, value judgments in everything, money, status, fashion, fame, prestige. Power and control, unsustainable because it is contrary to nature.
Criptonautas is much more.
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