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Who Am I?
Quotes Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. (Chinese proverb) Who am I? Everybody. As Whitman said: “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding. And these individuals resemble the individuals who flicker on and off within you. (George Saunders, author, The Guardian, posted and accessed 15 October 2022) Jean Houston coined the phrase "polyphrenia" to describe a high-functioning, multi-leveled consciousness that is well-organized and synergistic within its levels. At my best I am a community of awarenesses, each patiently (and urgently) waiting for its turn to express something. (See here, posted 30 April 2007, accessed 25 July 2014) I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time. (Annie Lennox) In life, you wear many hats. You play many parts. But remember, your essence is Spirit.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. (Lao Tzu) So,
what I can put
into words, a little bit at least, is who I’m not. Who I am,
being
myself, I believe is an expression of life I’ll never be able
to put
into words. At best, I will feel a connection to this. So, when you or
I go out with our friends, we go in our social circles, and we say,
“you know what, I just want to be myself”, just
know that the
insecurity of not knowing who yourself is, I believe keeps your mind
and heart open to deeper and deeper intimate discoveries about who you
are. (JP
Sears, 9m30s, posted 15 October 2014, accessed
13 October 2017)
There
is no
such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of
maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a
cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin
is
closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of
aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You
continue to learn more and more about yourself every day. (Bruce Lee, quoted
here,
accessed 19 November 2013) To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. (E.E. Cummings) It's not about knowing your enemy - it's all about knowing yourself. (The Nameless Monk, Bulletproof Monk movie) (The Nameless Monk, Bulletproof Monk movie) The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. (Joseph Campbell) It is really difficult for human beings to truly know themselves – they represent such an immense and diverse world. Having been made in God's image, humans are found throughout Creation. And because they are unaware of this, their life is very difficult. Particularly when they clash with others and bump things without knowing that these other people are part of them and that they are part of others. This truth is the basis of moral code. All laws about respect and love of one's neighbour are based on the fact that what people do to others, they also do to themselves. (O.M. Aïvanhov) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. (Albert Einstein) Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself. (Rupi Kaur) Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. (Matthew Arnold) Half of any person is wrong and weak and off the path. Half! The other half is dancing and swimming and flying in the Invisible Joy. (Rumi) We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music. (Albert Einstein) Mirabai Devi (from her book Samadhi):-
We
must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in
embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.
(Deepak Chopra)
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. (Psalm 82:6, Bible) Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. (Rumi) Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. (Rumi) You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. (Rumi) Self-knowing is from moment to moment; this self-knowing is only in the active present; it has no continuity as knowledge. (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Forget the nonsense of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination. You are soul, and you are love. (Rumi) |
Also see:- Who Am I? Animal, Human and Angel Maps of Consciousness |
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