Our concept and understanding of who we are is usually confined to "my desires, my needs, my relationships, possessions, accomplishments, strengths, weaknesses, my past, my physical characteristics, etc.” Our entire sense of identity is contained in things that are temporary and a complete mystery to us as far as their source.
Can we seriously look in the mirror and think we are the physical being we see reflected there? Where did that being we call "me" come from? Or, if "I" am the consciousness residing in the body, where did this consciousness come from and where will it go when the body's time is over? This is the great mystery—who am I? It is more important to ask this question than it is to find the answer. For in the course of a single life-time we may only move closer to finding out who we are—by discovering who we are not.
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