if you are not what you think about yourself then who are you?

Answer 1

We are many things to ourselves as well as to others. We are forever changing and growing - and we go through periods where we like and love ourselves, but at other times, we loathe ourselves. Each individual with whom we deal will always have a different opinion of us - some will like us, some will hate us.

There has to come a time when we finally settle down and can create opinions about ourselves - we have to be able to define the kind of person we are - but that comes when we are older.

But until that time arrives, then I guess we are explorers.

Answer 2

What you think of yourself can only be a symbol of what you are, not the real thing, but it is mistaken for the real thing quite often.
Example:
Someone calls you a name that actually challenges your self-image. Calling you a "boy" if you are a boy doesn't do much to challenge, but if you were a little girl, you might find such a name offensive.
It causes the little girl to get upset, epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenalin/noradrenalin), lacitate, etc., flood the system, she goes into a fight-flight response.

No damage has been done to her real self, no damage has even been threatened to her real self, yet she reacted with a reaction built into us for millions of years to defend our real selves.

Animals don't react this way because they don't have self-images of this sort.

Neither do saints or holy men.

Oh, they may react because the recognize the danger of PR problems, but they don't take offense, even when people claim they do.

The goal of spiritual enlightenment is to free the individual from this excess baggage, this false image, to minimize it.

This is only done when the individual has suffered enough from it that they no longer want it. That is the beginning of a spiritual path, not being cool because you are a buddhist, hindu, etc.

People cease pursuing a spiritual path when they start identifying themselves as a "Hindu", a "Buddhist", a "Christian". They have simply found a new identity, and there is much to be said for such identities. They are stable, often healthy way stations on the way to God/Nirvana, etc. They are also the next best thing to standing still if that is ALL you do. The richness and immense body of knowledge and skills that each of these religions (and many more) have to offer is RARELY explored by those who claim the name, and often they take offense whenever their NEW identity is challenged, because they have simply substituted the smaller self-image of "I" with the larger self-image of "us".
Politics has a similar effect.

At the same time, the real you is larger than you might think. ;)

Answer 3

I am the President of the United States.

Answer 4

GODs creation. A work in the process of becoming a unique individual.

Answer 5

im one among the billions still trying to leave my mark in this world.

Answer 6

A pigment of my imagination.

Answer 7

i don't want to know... i thought i was hot.. and people said i was ugly.. .. then i thought i was ugly.. and people said i was hot... people are stupid.. i don't want to know what they think about who i am.. they don't know me as well as i do..

Answer 8

opinons dont change facts

Answer 9

OFCOURSE I AM WHAT I THINK I AM

EVERYBODY SAYS I'M NOT WHAT I THINK I AM,,,,,BUT I STILL BELIEVE ......I AM WHAT I THINK

Answer 10

dude! a ninja!