I was just chubby, and sometimes quite chubby, with a hunger that threatened to make matters worse and a gnawing, deepening self-consciousness that Mom picked up on and that she decided she might have a solution to.
But the fact is that we have vast potential to expand not just our range of skills over the course of a lifetime, but also to deepen our self-awareness, relax our self-absorption, widen our circle of care and lengthen our perspective.
The main casualty of these convulsive literary mantraps is the idea of 'character' as a steadily deepening awareness of self and world.
To him, learning not only broadened his knowledge and deepened his self-awareness but also defined who he was.
Mencius taught that all people have the spiritual resources to deepen their self-awareness and strengthen their bonds with others.
The hype for globalisation that excited the era before the crash has given way now to fears of deglobalisation, and the measures governments have taken to buffer economies against another crisis have only deepened this self-destructive trend.
Or is it to capture the warts-and-all essence of an individual human personality in a way that engages the sympathy and deepens the self-understanding of those who encounter it?
The 14 goals they have scored in four matches in the Premier League may be partly down to a lack of stiff resistance in their opponents, but there has also been evidence of a resurgence of ruthlessness that will have deepened their self-belief.
"The Exception" is excellent on so many things: the texture of office life, the appalling inconsistencies and lacunas in our perceptions of our own characters, the way intelligent people use the insights of psychology not to deepen their self-awareness but to calumniate one another with more sophisticated accusations.
As these women strengthen their inner spiritual bonds and deepen their self-love and acceptance, they are finding the confidence and clarity needed to reach out to other women, and to the men in their lives who are ready to bring about one accord between the genders.
In the end, the comparative analysis deepens our self-understanding, i.e., our understanding of the present as a normative ambiance for developing critical reflections on the post-war past.
