Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.
People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy.
If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.
Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.
Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.
If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.