Zero to 1: Who Are You? What are You?
5 INSIGHTFUL QUESTIONS
I.
Who are you?
Notice how you answer this question.
When you say "I am me," what exactly is this "me" you're referring to?
You likely start telling a story—your name, your work, your relationships, your history. But is this story who you are or just a description of who you think you are?
II.
What are you?
A body, a mind, a soul. When these change, do you change with them?
III.
If you wrote down everything that makes you "you," could a stranger pick you out of a lineup using that description?
IV.
How do you know you exist?
Right now, something is aware that you're reading these words, aware that you're thinking, aware that you're breathing.
What is this something that knows?
And is this knowing separate from what it knows?
V.
Right now you are perceiving the world.
Who is it that perceives?
Does the one who perceives perceive the perceiver?
3 Quotes
I.
"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love."
Meister Eckhart
II.
"Who you are is not this collection of experiences and conditions. Who you are is the awareness in which they all appear."
Rupert Spira
III.
"Turn your attention toward the attention itself."
Douglas Harding