Do you "know" who are or do you have a "belief" of your self as taught by religion & society?

Question

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Answer 1

I AM is self taught, for the experience is that OF the individual in ONE, in the ALL, and nothing can be done otherwise for it is the individual ONLY that can make the choice to know that which is inside them so they might see outside and know both.

Know, YOU are the ONE, you and you alone and NO one will or can do it for you.

Peace is with you drifter... you are on the right course.

Answer 2

"I" personally don't know who I am. I'm past 40 and I'm still discovering.

As to having a "belief" as taught by religion or society, I have none, although I have at many times in my life. I have managed to pass beyond formal religions oppinion of how I choose to live and believe, and personally never cared much for the societal norm's interpretation.

Still, I acknowledge, we don't know self without something not of self. We need to see our self through other peoples eyes. Not so we can adopt their view, but so that we can compare, because we know everything through comparison. If we didn't we would only know the infinit. Ultimately, who I am is very much how I relate to others and how I fit in.

In my opinion that is.

Answer 3

Religion and society beliefs are so numerous and wide spread. I believe both play a factor in your life and how you are raised.

However, once you get to the age of reasoning you have to find the True meaning of life and it's not here on earth. God is the only way to begin believing in yourself, because He first Loved us.

Answer 4

Finding oneself happens through looking inside. You are a spirit with a physical body. You body is your limiting factor while on earth. Your spirit can do anything. You is just something your spirit possesses in our earth reality right now. You develop a personality but your personality is not you. Your looks are not you, your name is not you, etc. Once you have spent enough time looking inside and finding out about yourself, meditation is one way, you can begin to look outside, beyond this earth existence and find reasons for everything. Your spirit soars through multi-dimensional reality. Use the help of a spirit guide.

Answer 5

Knowing who you are is remembering. By having a belief of yourself by religions and society is going on the assumptions of others.

I know who I am from remembering.

Answer 6

I definitely know myself - my strengths, weaknesses, foibles and eccentricities. I try to stick by society's rules when they suit me or knit with my own personal moral code. I abhor all religion and would never follow a religious dictat

Answer 7

by faith and an abuse of trust in my evangelical parents I believed they Knew, but later I found out they trusted others who also trusted another blind person, who trusted another blind person to lead the blind

I have an experience and working copy of "religion" but leaning heavily towards spirituality as the main focus, and other people's spirituality to help shape my way of life and interaction with them

when facts come, faith departs, and the need to believe is no more

sadly much of what my parents shared with me was a lie and the leaders are in jail and called Con Artists

Answer 8

Can one ever truly know oneself? The world will define us, no matter how hard we try to be defined only by our self. We all have that image of being perfect or the best or the wisest or the holiest. Confucious

Answer 9

In those terms, my idea of myself was once the 'belief' you mentioned that was handed down to me from my parents, teachers, priests, etc. I now 'know' myself and by implication, others as well. Read my 'about me', this as much 'about you' as it is me. We are more of a mystery, yet more alike, than previously supposed.

Answer 10

I definitely know who I am...I do not need society or religion to identify myself.