Quote:So many questions, so few answers.
If you are - not, you cannot think.
Now lets get back on topic
You said "
If you are - not, you cannot think"
Who is it really who controls what you think, feel, say and do? Who is it that really, really influences your choices and your decisions? How did you come to believe what you believe, how you feel and how you react and respond as you do to people, places, events and circumstances in your life - at work, at home, at play and in relationship?
How did you become known as: "the happy one", "the angry one", "the hard-nosed one", "the prejudiced one", "the political one", "the honest one", "the fearful one", "the risk-taker", "the selfish one", "the compassionate one", "the writer", "the artist", "the non-mathematical one", "the don't-go-into-law" one"?" How did you become the I am described in your phrase,
"I am who i am, I think therefore I am"
How do you know who you really are??
Did you ask yourself the questions I listed in my post above? I hope so
By asking these questions and observing yourself, from outside yourself, you can begin to gain first-hand evidence of whose nodes and modules are on your motherboard.
And by asking these questions and observing yourself, from outside yourself, you can begin to gain first-hand evidence of whose nodes and modules are on your motherboard so you can consciously discern between:
·I think; therefore I am., and
·I think others' beliefs and thoughts; therefore I am who I think I am, which is not, in fact, me.
So, some questions for self-reflection are, and please ask yourself these.
·Choose a few of your deepest or strongest beliefs about work, life at home, play and relationships and ask yourself, "How did I actually come to have these beliefs?" "Do they really serve me well and bring me true and real happiness or a false happiness and false sense of security?"
· How have former bosses, politicians, the clergy, or TV and the media shaped my beliefs?
· Would others say I am open to opposing viewpoints?
· How did I come to have the beliefs I have around: money, career, friends, family, appearance, health, fun, love relationships, and spirituality?
·What stories about life at work, at home, at play and in relationship have I created based on my beliefs. Do my stories support my experience of fun, happiness, contentment and joy in my life? If not, do I prefer to keep my story to changing my belief? If so, why?
· Do I always need to be right?
· Am I gullible and easily deceived?
· Do I generally approach life with cynicism and scepticism?
· How well do I deal with change?
· When I listen to my inner judge and critic, whose voice do I most often hear (mother, father, primary caregiver, other)? What stories does that voice tell? And, are those stories true? Really?
· Do I consider myself to be a "free thinker? How did I arrive at this belief?
Or would you rather I adopt the thinking of a Bebo account owner, posting in text speak & the intellectuality of same?
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying."
Sarah