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FEB/24/2026
The encounter with oneself
A reflection on encountering oneself: through calm introspection, a person discovers strengths and weaknesses, confronts selfishness, and affirms authenticity. In this sincere search, one meets God and gains a freer, more objective perspective.

Si uno bucea en su mismidad con sinceridad, halla en el fondo del fondo de sí mismo cualidades buenas y cualidades malas.

Si la reflexión es serena, y no motivada por el golpe de mar de un suceso, de algún acontecimiento desagradable que hay enturbiado o encrespado la superficie, normalmente quieta del lago de su interioridad, donde suelen reflejarse las ondas que en lo hondo causan y producen la resonancia de los acontecimientos que a uno le toda vivir en su vida.

Uno mismo, para ser sí mismo, ha de pertrecharse para defenderse de todo lo que pretenda echar raíces extrañas en su mismidad; y la vigilancia se impone porque dentro de cada uno existen semillas y gérmenes que al tener un cultivo apropiado crecen, se propagan de manera totalmente acelerada.

El egoísmo de cada uno tiene mil facetas y lo más peligroso es cuando se presenta disfrazado de otra cosa para despistar.

La posesión plena de uno mismo exige tener a raya el egoísmo.

Lo peor del egoísmo es que está reñido con la felicidad cuando uno observa, en hora serena, la trayectoria del surco que ha abierto un acontecimiento determinado en su interior, puede saber si éste se dirige hacia su mejoramiento o en el sentido contrario a él. 

Cuando se tiene tesón para mantenerse hombre a pesar del peso de las circunstancias, el hombre va descubriendo su ser de persona. Esto es su convicción, que no es más que su singularidad, su originalidad y su creatividad, que se va perfilando al ir venciendo las dificultades que se oponen a ser sí mismo.

El hombre que tiene la valentía para bucear hasta el fondo de sí mismo, se encuentra con Dios. Y el hombre que busca de verdad a Dios, lo descubre en el fondo de sí mismo.

Este encuentro pone en su quicio la persona y le hace ver las cosas desde su óptica precisa para verlas con objetividad.

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Eduardo made many sheets for his personal use, which he frequently used as a script when he spoke. Some of them contain a single thought, but there are others that constitute true schemes, more or less complicated, difficult to interpret for someone other than the author himself. As these sheets expose an important part of his thinking, it was thought that they could be rewritten in a version that was easily accessible to everyone, always trying to reproduce his ideas with the utmost fidelity, although it was inevitable that, at least in part, his peculiar and very personal way of expressing himself would be lost. The difficulty increased due to the fact that the sheets were written, as already mentioned, with the purpose of serving as an aid in oral interventions and never thinking about their written publication. This adaptation work was started by Guillermo Bibiloni, a good connoisseur of the subject and author of a "History of Cursillos," but it was left incomplete, surely due to Guillermo's death, remaining forgotten among Eduardo's countless papers, until recently, the manuscript was found, considering it a great find. This part, adapted by Guillermo Bibiloni, is what is now published, leaving for later the rest of the sheets, which are still the object of the necessary adaptation work for comfortable reading. A few years ago, a booklet with this same title, written by Eduardo, was published. Although some coincidence is possible, the content of these first "Reflections" and that of "Reflections II" is different, since then, apparently, the author did not resort to the sheets we know, but to other sources from his copious archive.
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