How to know who you are?

[Spirit of Light]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

 

[Cooky]

Someone, please tell me who I am.

 

[leov]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

You are Searcher.
"13All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them."

 

[wizanda]

Who am I?

"I" exists as a historical timeline, with a beginning, and an end point.

Déjà vu is the double dashes to recall key moments.

The self is an analysis of the "I"; so we have a sentience.

"Am" means 'to exist', to have a sense of time; personally I do not know if I exist; we know Source exists, and musically one has heard One us in Heaven

Yet once we get to higher dimensions beyond the first dimension, "I Am" doesn't exist.

In other words Hell is "I Am" consciousness, it is an attachment to matter, which isn't actually real, it exists in the constructs of the Matrix.

Consciousness created reality to play in, yet some have become attached to the dream, and now it needs switching off, many shall no longer exist.

The more we attach to matter, the more we're evil; the more we let Source guide us, the more inner peace we become.

In complete letting go of all form, to the point of no attachment to self, and no "I" historical timeline, we then find ultimate peace (Sat Chit Ananda), as there is infinite potential found (0neness).

Tell us by your own words, Who are you?

I'm a 'Dynamic Funky Character'; which means 'We are all characters, in pages in the book of life'.

A character is an expression of a dynamic mathematical sequence... Sanatana, the infinite melody (Soul).

My expression of sound is like me playing this percussion, it is the rhythms found in my finger prints, the timing of rhymes of our pen.

Everything is all a musical symphony of maths, and I'm like the sparkle of a funky tune, where it goes from a 3rd, to a 5th, to then a 7th.

In my opinion.

 

[Wu Wei]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

Ask the majority of the people to answer that question and you will get a list of "What they are" not who they are, so you are not alone in this.

I do not know what to tell you and I cannot tell you who you are. Use ti try and figure that one out myself, and then one day it became much less important to me and I decided to just live and not concern myself with it any longer.

If you look at it from an eastern perspective it comes down to asking yourself "Who am I" repeatedly while sitting quietly. And allegedly, after all the other distractions in your head stop talking, it will come to you. I have no idea if that works or not, but that is all it was that I found out when I was concerned about it

 

[Nakosis]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

As I see myself, I am a CNS, Central Nervous System. Brain, spinal cord, nervous system. We don't identify with it much because we don't see it. We see a physical body. So we create a mental image of our self that doesn't have much to do with reality. We create an identity and form an attachment to it. However when we try to find this self, we find everything we identify with is actually something separate from ourselves.

If any part is damaged like the brain then I become less than what I was before. If enough is lost then I will no longer exist. Millions of data inputs and a central processor.

 

[ChristineM]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

I am I works for me,. Tomorrow i may be a different me but I am I still works

 

[Wu Wei]

As I see myself, I am a CNS, Central Nervous System. Brain, spinal cord, nervous system. We don't identify with it much because we don't see it. We see a physical body. So we create a mental image of our self that doesn't have much to do with reality. We create an identity and form an attachment to it. However when we try to find this self, we find everything we identify with is actually something separate from ourselves.

If any part is damaged like the brain then I become less than what I was before. If enough is lost then I will no longer exist. Millions of data inputs and a central processor.

Which also begs the question....should one figure out who they are at 25 years old.......are they the same at 55 years old?

 

[BSM1]

I asked me just this morning, and I was satisfied with the answer...

 

[sun rise]

Tell us by your own words, Who are you?

That question can be a meditation of various kinds. There's the witness meditation where 'you' watch thoughts arise and disappear. There's the direct "who am I" meditation. There's "neti neti" (not this not this) meditation where you subtract things that are not you.

The end result of these and other forms of meditation is the answer to the question, sooner or later.

 

[Nakosis]

Which also begs the question....should one figure out who they are at 25 years old.......are they the same at 55 years old?

I see my "self" as constantly changing. Tomorrow, I will be someone other than the person I was today. I just have memories of the person I was the day before which gives an illusion of continuity.

Of course there is some small hope that that there is some basis to this spiritual thinking but I don't want to kid myself.

 

[PureX]

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

There is a different 'you' lurking in the minds of everyone who has encountered you. For some of them that 'you' is very elaborate due to long association and many interactions with you. While to others that 'you' is very vague and simplistic as it was created based on some very minimal interaction. And many of these various "you's" lurking in the minds of other people would be contradictory if they were jointly revealed and compared, while others would align and ratify each other surprisingly well.

There is also an idea of ourselves lurking in each of our own minds. And it will align with the ideas others have of us in some way, but not in other ways. So that in asking yourself the question; "Who am I?", you are not asking the question with enough specificity. And so you are not likely to get an insightful answer.

Who am I ... to whom?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Thank you to all of you who took time to write back to me in this thread I can take parts of every answer here and look at my self and find truth in it

This is what I like about this forum and its members, it is actually possible to ask a deeper question and get a deeper answer Even we may not see the world in the same way, or see each other as the same form of being.
Life is not so easy to understand as one may think sometimes. And when we look out into the open space (universe) and deep within our own body (cells) we can see how wast this existence is, and how small we as a human being is in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

Maybe the best way to find out is to ask, "Where have 'I' been"?

 

[Jesuslightoftheworld]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

I am a child of God whom is loved unconditionally by the one who created me. I am cherished and forsaken. He knows how many hairs are on my head. My worth lies in Him. I was born with a plan and purpose for my life He wants me to be happy. He wants to have a loving relationship with me. His Will is the the way to truly be happy. He always forgives me and I can be comforted in the fact that I am never alone and He is in control of everything. I don’t deserve His love but I get it anyways and the only way to not have His love is to reject it. I am dead spiritually in my sin. But He found away to make sure that when my body dies I will live forever in paradise with Him. Sounds too good to be true. But it isn’t. So what do I have to lose? Nothing. But I have everything to gain. That’s why I choose Him. He has taken the ashes of my life and made something new so many times I can’t remember. He has healed my broken heart countless times. He’s pulled me out of darkness hundreds of times. With Him is hope and love. Everyday we get to start over. How do I know? because

 

[Jesuslightoftheworld]

I am a child of God whom is loved unconditionally by the one who created me. I am cherished and forsaken. He knows how many hairs are on my head. My worth lies in Him. I was born with a plan and purpose for my life He wants me to be happy. He wants to have a loving relationship with me. His Will is the the way to truly be happy. He always forgives me and I can be comforted in the fact that I am never alone and He is in control of everything. I don’t deserve His love but I get it anyways and the only way to not have His love is to reject it. I am dead spiritually in my sin. But He found away to make sure that when my body dies I will live forever in paradise with Him. Sounds too good to be true. But it isn’t. So what do I have to lose? Nothing. But I have everything to gain. That’s why I choose Him. He has taken the ashes of my life and made something new so many times I can’t remember. He has healed my broken heart countless times. He’s pulled me out of darkness hundreds of times. With Him is hope and love. Everyday we get to start over. How do I know? because

He told me.

 

[Jesuslightoftheworld]

He told me.

He told me.

He told me.

He told me.

I am NEVER forsaken!

 

[Spirit of Light]

I am NEVER forsaken!

My question then would be, Do you live your life or God's life on earth? because if all you do is say you do anything God tells you, how can you develop your own spiritual practice?

Spiritual practice is the way of life (how we gain wisdom within, so we can remove our faults and become pure) when it comes to how we develop wisdom from the chosen path we take toward realizing the truth. is it not?

 

[Vinayaka]

Maybe others have been in this situation before?

You know spiritually who you are and know what lay in front of you of hard work on morality, ethics, and cultivation of spiritual practice. But in daily life that's where one struggle?
Personally, I see and understand the spiritual side of the being I am. But on a personal level of being a human being, this is where I struggle the most.

My fiancèe, my Doctor, and family have seen my struggle and even asked me. Tell us by your own words, Who are you? And every time I end up with being unable to answer. it always ends up where I answer I do not know.

Who am I? This is the question I can not answer.....

You? Do you mean the soul? Do you mean the personality? Do you mean the physical body? Do you mean the Self-God?

Which 'you' is Amanaki referring to?

 

[Spirit of Light]

You? Do you mean the soul? Do you mean the personality? Do you mean the physical body? Do you mean the Self-God?

Which 'you' is Amanaki referring to?

A very good question Thank you @Vinayaka

I would say the person that others see as the physical body (personality maybe) Because as I said, mostly I understand where my spiritual practice is going. But it is how to live a "normal" life together with other people that I struggle with. it seems to be a question from people around me, where am I going in life, what is the reason I change my mind about hobbies or what I want to work with, or why i say or do things the way I do.

But i don't think it is an easy answer to this actually