Who are you? I dont mean your name either. I mean it's impossible to actually know who you are. Yea so I know: I'm Chelsea, I like to dance, I'm 14, I'm in 9th grade, I live in New Jersey. That's not what I mean. I mean yea you know things about yourself, but you can never actually "really know" yourself. There will always be things about you that you never know. Do you get what I mean?
2006-09-03 09:04:44 · 15 answers · asked by Chels 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Somewhere ive read that its impossible to know yourself, as you can only know who you was, because you change every second, and as you think of yourself, you think who you were a second ago, but not who you are now.
2006-09-03 09:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Solveiga 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
know yourself can mean: experience your self - and that isnt getting a list of concepts applicable to your personality [which would be long and controversial and incomplete, as you say] - it would mean having an experience of your self being - it would mean ignoring all the data coming in from your senses [from 'outside'] and 'feeling' your self, your being, your existence, your livingness, your aliveness, your inner self - which is joy, consciousness, clarity, peace, beauty, perfection, love, harmony, sweetness, etc
your self is not actually limited as your personality is - it is not like this or like that - it has no character you can put a finger on - it is divine, sublime, limitless, immaculate, fine, nameless but excellent - like stroking a cat, only finer, because it is not in time or place
see my other answers for more
2006-09-05 06:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. I am a child of God, a poet, a husband to the most wonderful wife in the world, an advocate of sorts, a survivor, and many more things. Most of all I am loved by God, my wife, and my friends and that's more than many could ask. These and more are what my identity is.
2006-09-03 16:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by Crossroads Keeper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Solveiga got it right.Our definition of ourselves is always changing.Every experience builds on the last to make a new me.Just the action of answering this question changes my definition.
2006-09-03 19:01:56 · answer #4 · answered by timelord1962 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree with you. and i think the meaning of life is finding out who we really are.
"we don't know who we are until we see what we can do" _ Martha Grimes. And because we haven't done so many things in our lives so ...
2006-09-03 23:10:46 · answer #5 · answered by Polly 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam Sandler movies are funny, but you shouldn't take the lunatic ideas to heart.
2006-09-03 16:10:19 · answer #6 · answered by dinochirus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more important question is:
Are you being who you think you are -- doing what you think you should be doing?
Once you have an answer to that, you will know who you really are.
2006-09-03 18:58:44 · answer #7 · answered by : ) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i understand what you say. its true, its not easy to know oneself. everyday brings something new about thyself, but i can't really say that i will never actually be able to know everything about myself because life is going on and if i go on unearthing something everyday then maybe i'll finally be knowing myself.
2006-09-04 07:11:16 · answer #8 · answered by Kelrec 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i do know what you mean you are young and you haven't found yourself yet but you will i hope you like what you find
2006-09-07 06:36:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea..i understand..it';s kind of difficult to know who you really are...there is al least one thing you don;t now about you...but i don't think it is something you can do about this....
2006-09-03 16:34:25 · answer #10 · answered by butterfly06 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋