This Above All: A Journey of Self-Discovery

by Tess Hughes

Our relationship with ourselves is the most important relationship we will ever have. We die alone. Nobody else can accompany us on that journey.

A deeper or more comprehensive understanding of ideas, spiritual teachings in particular, happens as we begin to notice our own inner contradictions. The collapse of contradictions leads to integration.

However, I became able to see that paying attention to one’s inner life is not the same thing as being self-obsessed in the usual sense of wanting the world to notice us or get things our way. In fact, to not pay attention to one’s own inner life is to neglect oneself, and lose contact with our selves. This is where our suffering stems from.