Know Yourself: A path to self-knowledge

We may spend years mastering the external world - acquiring degrees, advancing careers, building families - without ever turning inwards to make sense of the person orchestrating it all: ourselves. This book is a guide to the elusive, essential task of self-knowledge. With clarity, gentleness and depth, it explores why we are often mysteries to ourselves, how our childhoods quietly script our behaviors and why seemingly trivial experiences - an abrupt word, a strange dream, a lingering mood...