What this means is to live in awareness. People that are out of touch with their minds and emotions - literally in the grip of their anger, jealousy, greed, gluttony, ideas - such people (ie most of us!) are not in control, they are unaware of the motivations for their behaviour and find it hard to break destructive patterns of behaviour, for example drinking too much, having serial relatonships, being too dependent, being as control freak...we all have some part of our lives where we are particularly unaware and destructive.So to know yourself is to become more self aware - someting that often happens quite naturally as we grow up and learn to take responsibility for our feelings and behaviour. However most of us are unconscious to some degree or other. Knowing thyself is ultimately a spiritual path - it goes hand in hand with practices like meditation or more extreme practices like fasting - this is designed to make you very aware of your inner life and shake you from your robotic lethargy! (taken form http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081026032757AAA2yU8
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