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Self-Examination for Self-Development
The following questions are based on P.D.Ouspensky's The Fourth Way. These can become valuable tools, but it is suggested that they be worked one at a time until the list has been worked through gradually.
| 1 | How many times today in speech or thought have I let unworthy I's represent me? Such as: inconsequential I's; argumentative or quarrelsome I's; querulous, complaining I's; boasting I's; nagging, bullying I's; impatient I's; and other I's (Name them) that do not truly represent me? |
| 2 | How quickly did I replace such an 'I' by the true 'I'? |
| 3 | How many times today did I indulge in idle, empty talk, voicing my petty likes, dislikes and opinions? |
| 4 | How many times today did I show annoyance, resentment, a feeling of superiority, weariness, or any other negative emotion (name it)? |
| 5 | How many times did I give way to a feeling of fear, worry, jealousy, self-pity, self-justification? How promptly did I replace such? |
| 6 | How many times today did I put another person ahead of myself, give another preference over myself? |
| 7 | How often did I put myself unfairly or ungraciously ahead of another? |
| 8 | How many times today did I blame someone else or something outside of myself for something affecting me? |
| 9 | How many unthinking statements and retorts did I make today? |
| 10 | How many times did I lapse into unintentional thinking? |
| 11 | How many times did I stop all thoughts and remember myself-The Self? |
| 12 | How many times today did I want to try to change another person, to make them think to do my way to suit me? |
| 13 | How many times today have I tried to change my own way of thinking or doing, to improve and reform it? |
| 14 | How many times have I turned my criticism of another upon myself? |
| 15 | How many times today have I made myself do something I did not feel like doing? How many times have I yielded to inertia, procrastination, desire for ease and comfort? |
| 16 | How many times have I insisted on my own way in opposition to others, overborne another, forced my will on another or others? |
| 17 | How many times have I forborne to do so when so impelled? |
| 18 | How many times today have I indulged in unnecessary chatter? In argument? In attack? In gossip? In retaliatory retort? How many times have I listened and remained silent or returned a conciliatory answer? |
| 19 | How many times today have I sought to lift conversation from the negative to the constructive? |
| 20 | How many times have I joined in negative talk? |
| 21 | How many times today have I in speech or thought made a virtue of my difficulties, my self-denial, my accomplishments or practices that are purely my own concern and undertaking? |
| 22 | How many times today have I made excuses for myself either to myself or to others? |
| 23 | How many times today have I passed judgment on another person? |
| 24 | How many times today have I spoken in a way to vaunt my own value or superiority in any respect? |
| 25 | How many times have I spoken in a way to disparage another? |
| 26 | Have I assumed in thought or word that in being different in some respect from another or others I am superior? |
| 27 | Have I quenched such feeling in myself as unwarranted and absurd? |
| 28 | Have I spoken slightingly to or of another in regard to some preference, interest or concern of theirs? |
| 29 | Have I asked or accepted indulgence of others for some unnecessary habit or behaviour of mine? |
| 30 | Have I honestly and sincerely sought, accepted and pondered criticism of myself from others? |
| 31 | Have I carefully dwelt today on my aims and goals, immediate and ultimate, in this work of self-evolution? |
| 32 | Have I tried to see myself as I think I see others tried to put myself in the place of others to see myself as they see me, tried to see behind my outward behaviour and conduct to what lies behind and motivates it? |