Self Knowledge Base is a foundation dedicated to Self-Transcendence and Self-Growth. It has a mission in educating people in learning about them selves. This learning can lead individuals to be able to find the roots of negative and damaging emotions, behaviors, and thoughts and to replace them with the ones that are healthier and more productive. A person who does not know himself can not be aware of his core essence and the magnificence within; consequently, such a person will not be able to be conscious, concerned, and attentive to himself and his surroundings.
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Please get involved in these projects to strengthen our community and to help our families be productive members of the society we live in. Every step counts and everyone can take a step.
These projects are:
Self Awareness Scientific Seminars: These free-of-charge seminars are presented on a regular monthly base in MD and VA. We need volunteers to help us expand these seminars.
Mentor/Mentee Relationship: Matching children who need extra emotional/friendship support with a caring adult who is willing to share her/his heart and spend some time with one child of his/her choice.
Professional Circle: Helping graduate level students and/or professionals who want to come to USA to have an easier adjustment phase by connecting them with helping sources.
Children Volunteer Work: Teaching and encouraging our children to do charity work as a group on a regular base. For children ages 10 to 18.
Character Building Classes for Children and Adolescent. Group Gathering for Self Esteem, Identity, and Moral Value Education: These group sessions are focused on teaching our children the importance of having a sense of community for identity formation. These also focus on educating and training the participants on vital subjects like moral values, compassion, self esteem, community work, expressing feelings in healthy ways, healthy behavior, friendship, social skill, stress management, and many more beneficial subjects.
Donations
We do not take any financial donations but encourage our committed readers and participants to do one of the following, if they feel like our writings and seminars have been helpful to them. Within each month, we encourage individuals to do a specific task as a collective appreciation for the information to help prevent global warming and to help educate others about it. The months of September and October are the cleaning and planting months. If you need more information regarding the following or have questions about them, feel free to send us an email at: contact@selfknowledgebase.com
1. Plant a tree anywhere you feel is suitable to do so.
2. Clean a river, a neighborhood, a street, a park or any other place accessible.
3. Give educational books to a child and tell them about the book.
4. Visit an elderly and listen to them with an unconditional love.
5. Car pool if you can.
6. Sponsor a child for education.
7. Stop yourself when judging someone or something without having enough knowledge about it.
8. Recycle all your paper and plastic.
Acts of Giving
Looking at psychological aspects of the old saying that it's better to give than to receive indicates that acts of giving usually increases the bond between the giver and the receiver, it tells us about ourselves, and gives us a sense of competence which feels good. According to Erich Fromm, Ph.D, most humans want to be loved but it is actually the act of loving that is gratifying. We want to be loved generally because it helps our chances to love. Every time we give something or do something for others we feel useful, generous, and kind. These are all positive feelings that help nurture us.
Charitable giving is not usually a separate act, it seems to be a part of a group of personality traits including selflessness, high-mindedness, and kindness. The development of generosity can often be rooted in the childhood experiences. Children need to be provided an environment in which they are given opportunities to give to others to build a sense of compassion. The act of giving helps children experience the joy of sharing and serving something larger than themselves. The biggest barrier to generosity is our own selfish temperament. Unless we deal with this fundamental dilemma and overcome it, we can never move up too far on the ladder of generosity. According to Buddhism, one can solve the ego problem through the enlightenment of "no self".
Rambam who was a 12th century Jewish scholar wrote the Rambam’s Ladder which provides grounds for why we can become better people by giving better. In his writings, he developed an eight-step program on giving to the poor on the basis of Jewish law. Julie Salamon who is the best selling author of the New York Times, provides a contemporary examination of Ramban's Ladder. She explains that the lowest level of the ladder represents giving begrudgingly for example giving money to a panhandler. The highest step represents the ability of self-reliance for example offering the panhandler a job so that he does not need to beg any more or even further educating the panhandler about the importance of having a job.
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. Albert Einstein
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
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