 When St. Catherine unpacks this concept of the cell of self-knowledge, she says it's a cell, a room, a space, that has not just one but two chambers. She's very cautious here to warn us that we don't want to enter only the first or outer chamber. For St. Catherine, the outer chamber of the cell of self-knowledge is our knowledge simply of ourselves, the way we see ourselves, the way we experience ourselves in relation to the world around us. Now, Catherine warns that if we stay only in that outer cell, we can often become discouraged because the way we see ourselves reveals to us a lot of weakness, a lot of struggle. But she says that it's important to enter into a second chamber, the inner cell of self-knowledge.