Who am I? - A question of Identity

A question of Identity


Identity comes from the Latin meaning the same… or sameness over time…

Personal identity can be as distinct as fingerprints that point to individuality…

Theories of personality development focus on both nature and nurture factoring in to produce uniqueness, and differences from others…

Who are we?

Given the label of human being, we are distinct from other life forms and yet share the same basic DNA and molecular make-up of most life forms on the planet… to there is both sameness and distinction…

We become identified through our development and circumstances with many states, characteristics, roles, labels, groups, etc.

Are we our name?

Are we our family?

Are we our heritage…our DNA… our cultural past?

Are we our body?

Are we our sensations and emotions?

Are we our thinking?

Are we the roles we play?

Are we the relationships we have?

We can see that all of the above impact our development, our identity, and personality and become important factors in the “I” that has become our personal self…

And for many, we become lost or identified in various aspects of our personal experience and the form we are in at any particular time…

And we also can say that we have an essential identity, essential “I” that is timeless and the same since it is the realization that we are Life itself… the Who am I? question becomes the statement of “I am”…

The identification as the “Essential I” is the Being … the Life Source… the Oneness of all Life Energy…

From this perspective we know that we are not separate…we are not individuals cut off from others and life… we are one… and our personal identity melts into the oneness of Being…

This essential identity can and must be the basic foundation for all congruent and harmonious “Doing”…

Many will identify themselves by what they do or their name or roles… perhaps even with feelings or groups or beliefs and thought forms…

We are always more than our name… our roles…our feelings… our thoughts… our body and sensations… we experience all of these aspects and they are important for functioning in a “doing” world… and they are not who we essentially are…. We are pure awareness or consciousness which is Life or Being itself… and we have the potential and power to choose, which is the essential “Doing” of life…

It seems the more we act from the integrity of our essence, the more likely our actions are going to be in harmony with Life…

While all the aspects of our personality and body and circumstance continue to change, the core identity of Being Conscious in the present moment remains the centered still-point of identity.

This expanded arena of consciousness helps us to walk in both the plane of time and in the spaciousness of timelessness.

We find the timeless identity sometimes through letting go of thoughts of past and future and labeling and simply be in the present… sometimes in nature, sometimes in trauma, sometimes in rapturous music, sometime just in stilling out thoughts in a form of meditation… we cannot think our way to timeless Being! … we are always here… as we shift our focus… letting go of yesterday and tomorrow… we enter the Now…

The Essence of Being Life is always … in the timeless now!