We must discover that nature, and contend with it…
Page 193. We must discover that nature, and contend with it, before making peace with ourselves. What is it, that we most truly are? What is it, that we could most truly become knowing who we most truly are? We must get to the very bottom of things before such questions can be truly answered.
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
In the book
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." — Sun Tzu (Sample epigraph — or use one of your own; you said it plainly in, that the biggest obstacle in life is yourself, and in, that we must first discover our own nature, and contend with it, before we can ever make peace with ourselves.) For seven chapters we have talked about what you need to fly — the shape of the flight, a plan, fuel, time, and the instruments you read it all by. […] Think of your parents as a pantry of ingredients you were cooked from: you got what was on the shelves, not what you would have ordered. The first act of wisdom is simply to learn that airframe honestly — to discover your own nature, and contend with it, before you can ever make peace with yourself. There is freedom in this, not defeat, because your inherited tendencies are not a life sentence: the very triggers that activate them can change within a single generation, even though the genes themselves take many. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)