What if you aren’t who you think you are? Do we really know who we are or are we impostors?
“When you realize that you have you, then you realize that because of that everything starts and everything happens.”
Choi, Johwa. From Well-Being to Well-Dying: Harmony Meditation: A new way to completion
Do we realize that we have ourselves? What does that even mean? I have heard these things before but I like the way Johwa puts it in his book Harmony Meditation because it can lead the reader to an experience of this for themselves instead of just understanding it as a concept.
Examples of this are further alluded to in the book. We experience this everyday but itâ€
We also distinguish between our Self and our body. We say “I†have a headache. We see ourselves as our body and thoughts but at the same time we distinguish ourselves between them when we speak. Who is the “I†that has the headache? Yet we are still totally identified with ourselves as our thoughts, body, and emotions.
“You can be mad at yourself, too. What kind of emotion is that? In order to be mad at yourself you are treating yourself like there exists one, but there is another you, as well.”
From Well-Being to Well-Dying: Harmony Meditation: A new way to completion
Hmm thatâ€
I think those are really important questions. Whatâ€
I am still discovering who I am, and often times feel like I am starting over from scratch, but I canâ€