Finding Yourself: Uncovering Your Path to Inner Peace

[FZ+]

Originally posted by THANOS
I thought of it and came to a conclusion that one can not find oneself because one is always oneself. One can only seek what one desires to be.

Precisely! Finding oneself is about decisiveness in terms of the path to take.

But is that always (or even ever) a good thing?

 

[THANOS]

I guess it would be a good thing considering if we decided to be ourselves the momment we were born we would not have as much knowledge we have now. But to say that is truly a good thing would be too presumptuous.

After all we kids learned from the best. Our parents or gaurdians.

 

[Zantra]

I don't think we COULD be ourselves- I think what we are ultimately is based on life, on our experiences, and our environment. When we come into the world we are ourselves, which is to say we don't have an identity. But as we grow, learn, and experience life, we become who we were meant to be.

 

[Mumeishi]

I think knowing yourself means understanding your own fundamental motivations and learning to act accordingly. It is emotions that drive us not reasons.

 

[FZ+]

I guess it would be a good thing considering if we decided to be ourselves the momment we were born we would not have as much knowledge we have now. But to say that is truly a good thing would be too resumptuous.

Actually, what I am suggesting is that as individuals, the greatest gift we have is not to be found, but to be lost. Since only when we have not fully made a decision do we have real choice and our is truly free, and that flexibility is what human life is all about. Preferring pragmatism over determination, basically.

We can seek, but we should not find.