One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

It takes a real mental toughness and self-awareness to succeed.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.