Self-Awareness
The man who is aware of himself is henceforth
independent;and he is nevet bored,and life is only too short,and
he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate
happiness.He alone lives,while other people,slaves of
ceremony,let life slip past them in a kind of dream.Once
conform,once do what other people do finer than they do it,and
lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the
soul.He becomes all outer show and inward emptiness;dull
callous,and indifferent.