Know Thyself!

I was just thinking about what an amazing time the 6th century BC must have been.  So many great, great thinkers walked the planet around that time: There was Socrates in Greece, Lao Tzu and Confucius in China, the Buddha in Northern India.  Wow!  These individuals stepped out and away from mainstream society, put down tired old dogma and belief, to question.  That's what they did...they questioned. They actually traded in the value of conceptual knowledge (maybe with the exception of Confucius) for inner knowing and understanding of the Self.  Isn't it amazing that they all lived around the same time?

Just thought that was cool.