Knowing, Doing, & Being

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Knowing Doing Being

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Knowing Doing Being: I am not knowing, doing, or being thinking. I am a host for thinking that knows, does, or represents something.


“The fundamental upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” —Arthur Schopenhauer

“Thinking-knowing is the problem about the problem of thinking-knowing.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” —Socrates


Knowing Doing Being

  • Read and discover the answer to what your nature is. How can claims to know, do, or be harm your sanity?

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What Is Not Self?

  • I am not knowing the thinking.
  • I am not doing the thinking.
  • I am not being the thinking.
  • I am hosting the thinking.

What Is Self?

  • Know the inner place.
  • Do the inner space.
  • Be the inner space.

Relation of Self

  • Be the relation of your inner place and space to all else.
  • Be the relation of your inner place and space to God.
  • Be the relation of your inner place to the contents of that space and place (energy, sensations, feelings, thoughts).

Self Is Not—

  • Self is not things.
  • Self is not thoughts.
  • Self is not concepts.
  • Self is not images.
  • Self is not self-esteem.
  • Self is not ego.
  • Self is not experience.

Self Is—

  • Self is a host.
  • Self is a vessel.
  • Self is a container.
  • Self is a reflector.
  • Self is a magnifier.
  • Self is a temple.

Knowing Doing Being

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Knowing, Doing, & Being

Knowing Doing Being

Quotations Various Sources

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” –Albert Einstein

“Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate, it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.” —Socrates, in Plato’s Apology

“I have the ability to be but not to know or do.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side–I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.” —Bethania McKenstry

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” —Anatole France

“It is their experience of knowing and hating that is important to people, not being right or wrong.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” —Claude Bernard

“Learn to say ‘I don’t know.’ If used when appropriate, it will be often.” —Donald Rumsfeld

“Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.” —Sophocles, Ajax

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” — Confucius

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” —William Shakespeare, 1546-1616

“The fundamental upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” —Arthur Schopenhauer

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” —Voltaire

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.” —John Lennon

“The novice who knows he is just that, has a small amount of wisdom. But the novice who thinks he is wise is a fool.” —Dhammapada: The Novice, verse 63

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” —Socrates

“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of thinking that one knows.” —Epictetus, Discourses


Knowing Doing Being

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  6. Emotional Responsibility: List Pages
  7. Exercises & Techniques: List Pages
  8. Feeling & Coping: Fast-Facts
  9. Meditation: List Pages
  10. REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy): List Pages
  11. Self-Esteem Issues: List Pages
  12. Thinking Skills: Free Help
  13. Unconditional Self-Esteem (USE): Defined
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Knowing Doing Being

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