How to: know your soul
Have you ever heard something that completely changed how you viewed your life? Today I want to share a saying that comes from one of my heroes -- my grandfather. My grandfather was a very DEEP, wise man. His life was far from easy. He went from being the son of a very successful third generation piano and pipe organ company in Germany, right before WWII, to losing literally everything, nearly dying once from shrapnel wounds and later from typhoid. Then he had to start from scratch in America after leaving a war-torn country with his young wife, my grandmother, and with two little girls (my aunts) and later, my mom. One of the things he taught me, growing up, when we would play chess together (I never won and he usually fell asleep after I would take FOREVER to move) was: γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnóthi seautón) which is Greek for... Know Thyself. This philosophical saying is inscribed at the Temple of Apollo in Greece, in the ancient precinct of Delphi. You know, where the famous Orac