what do you tell people when they ask you who you are? what are your referencing in to introduce yourself and let yourself be know. one cannot define himself by the attributes the senses dictate. do you say, i am an american, i am british... i am a filipino, my parents are this and that. i remember one person telling me that i she know a very big secret to my identity and that threatens everything i know about myself, reason for me to not be close to my mother, but later reassured that im blood related. did it matter to me? no! whether im my mother's son or not it doesnt change anyhting... i am secure though that i am the son of my mother. regardless, i will always be thankful because she and father took me in and gave me shelter and a basic identity. knowing oneself is more than what the senses tell you not even your habits define you. knowing ones nature and duty is what tells you who you are one should be secure of that fact. ones nature is to achieve his duty and ones duty is act according to what his nature is. this world has been very busy gratifying the senses that they are drenched into material happiness. to know the human self is just the start, one should also know what animates the body... the soul. every person have spirits and the spirit also needs gratification. the spirit is one person essence and the soul is which animates the body. this all together define man. the simplest element that make one exist. to know oneself then is to achieve ones duty by living according to its nature which gratifying the soul. existing by not being engrossed to wordly needs but being higher conciousness on life where one can live depending on their basic element. and what gratifies the soul? it when you are one with the one supreme soul, the animating energy which the intermost cosmic being to whence everything came from. when you are again one with your maker even in your physical existence then you are at peace. i was once told to be at peace with myself... what is being peace with oneself. there plenty of people who competes with themselves, many have angst and are drenched in frustration, how they achieve peace? i can only say that they have to loosen up and achieve tranquility by reaching to roots of their disturbance and get a way around it. others would advice these people to get a life... yes ofcourse, in what respect? is getting a life verring away from things that you used to do and then again indulge oneself self-gratification? when you satiate the needs of the body does that make you happy, it does but not very long you are empty. i think if one can only be secure with himself and knows how to go the roots of all his miseries and learn to eliminate the caused then he'll be fine. when you are at peace because you know are one with your maker and you show the values of one that has achieved spiritual existence in a material setting then you have conformed on the tenets of knowing who you are. what do you tell people then when they ask you who are? one would just usually state their name... i do think that's enough...
carpe diem!!!
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