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It is impossible to quantify the vital role that the NEH has played in our national search for meaning and self-knowledge, but the endowment’s website begins to tell the story.

Across religions, vows of silence are used to quiet the mind, develop self-knowledge and connect more deeply with the divine.

But the adventures that skateboarding facilitates can also be gateways to freedom and self-knowledge.

"These findings suggest that reaching to the body may be equally important and that exploring the body is the gateway to self-knowledge."

Hers is a world where logic does not reign, independence is essential and the unconscious is a mechanism for self-knowledge.