Who are you? How the heck do you answer that?

[Wu Wei]

Trying to answer the question "Who are you?" and I am finding out it is rather hard to answer. So far all of my answers seem to be answering the question "What are you?"

Anyone been here before? Anyone have any suggestions? any one actually care?

 

[savagewind]

I think who is what you want to be and try to be and what is what you actually do.

 

[Laika]

I think probably the best way to answer this question is "you are what you do". Whilst you can answer "who are you?" with a name, a place, age etc, these deatils don't actually tell you anything about who you are as a person. Trying to comprehend our place in the world requires us to think about how we relate to that world through our actions. the inner sense of self is not something you can put a name tag on (and if you do it is generally very restrictive) but is something we express and develop by interacting with the world and other people.

 

[Willamena]

Trying to answer the question "Who are you?" and I am finding out it is rather hard to answer. So far all of my answers seem to be answering the question "What are you?"

Anyone been here before? Anyone have any suggestions? any one actually care?

The "you," per se, is the sum of all the whats and what abouts.

 

[Orbit]

This is what you ask yourself in Advaita Vedanta meditation: Who am I?

 

[Kathryn]

I'm different entities to different people, so it really depends on who is asking the question - that is, their SATISFACTION with my answer depends on who they are.

I know who I am. I am a woman, made in the image of my Creator, whose purpose in life is to be a conduit of His/Her grace on this earth, That manifests itself in different ways, giving me veneers of identity depending on your perspective, but that core being doesn't change for me.

 

[dust1n]

Trying to answer the question "Who are you?" and I am finding out it is rather hard to answer. So far all of my answers seem to be answering the question "What are you?"

Anyone been here before? Anyone have any suggestions? any one actually care?

Hmm... I had to sit there and think for a second about this, but I think for now I've decided that "who" is a word used to specifically identify a human, and the only way I'm aware of in how people do this is basically a name, lol. So, who I am is just my name. What I am seems to be where are the rest of the mystery lies, I suppose.

 

[psychoslice]

Well on one level I am Robert, the mind body organism, and on the other hand, I am all there is, or pure Source, connected to all, the latter is who I truly am.

 

[Revoltingest]

Trying to answer the question "Who are you?" and I am finding out it is rather hard to answer. So far all of my answers seem to be answering the question "What are you?"

Anyone been here before? Anyone have any suggestions? any one actually care?

Who am I?
I'm the ******* guy who's tell'n you the way it is!

Channel'n Chili Palmer there.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Try separating yourself to isolate the answer.

Will it work?

 

[Baladas]

On one level, I am a primate. On another, I am a part of this planet. The planet is a part of our solar system.
The solar system is part of our galaxy. The galaxy, the Universe.

That's one answer...but again, perhaps this is more of answering the "what am I" question.

 

[Valjean]

"I'm fine, who are you?"

 

[Treks]

I'm asking myself this very same question at the moment.

Obviously no one can answer that question except yourself. Perhaps the better question is, 'How do I discover who I am?'

Perhaps this will help us: How to Find Yourself: 15 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

 

[Banjankri]

Trying to answer the question "Who are you?" and I am finding out it is rather hard to answer.

Who we are, is the immediate experience of existence that we have in our everyday life. It's just hard to put in words. There is nothing that we know better then ourselves.

 

[tiki]

I am the total of all I saw and learned and felt in all my lives in the three worlds.

I am my good karma plus bad karma.

I am 1 tiny cell in gods mind.

 

[Wu Wei]

Found this and thought it was interesting, not sure if it is right, but it is intersting

How to Define Yourself

 

[gnomon]

Trying to answer the question "Who are you?" and I am finding out it is rather hard to answer. So far all of my answers seem to be answering the question "What are you?"

Anyone been here before? Anyone have any suggestions? any one actually care?

Who you are is how you live every day. It's not a hard question. It's a question that cannot be answered with a verbal response but based upon how you perceive yourself and others perceive you every day. Solely based upon how you act.

Any attempt at stating who you are will be countermanded by how you actually conduct yourself. And how you conduct yourself is far more perceived by others than yourself. So you will always remain an utter mystery unto yourself.

Who are you? Everyone else knows, right or wrong. What you know will always be a self deluded vanity, right or wrong.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I'm asking myself this very same question at the moment.

Obviously no one can answer that question except yourself. Perhaps the better question is, 'How do I discover who I am?'

Perhaps this will help us: How to Find Yourself: 15 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow

Wow! there's a wikihow for everything, it appears! I think I've already found myself well enough, but what I need is to become Maximum Universal Dictator...I'm going back to WikiHow to find out how to take over the universe!

 

[Riverwolf]

Trying to answer the question "Who are you?" and I am finding out it is rather hard to answer. So far all of my answers seem to be answering the question "What are you?"

Anyone been here before? Anyone have any suggestions? any one actually care?

I've thought about this for years, so here's the sum of my thoughts in that time.

"What" and "who" are related conceptual questions, so it's easy to see why the most common answers seem to involve the former rather than the latter.

Thing is, they're not mutually exclusive concepts. I don't think the common answers are to "what" instead of "who", but are to "what" as an extension of "who". Bring up all the answers to the question of "what I am", apply a reference label to efficiently refer to all of them, and you'll have the answer as to "who" I am.

 

[gnomon]

If you do not know who you are than you are lying to other people.

Get it?

Even if you are struggling with who you are?

I know what I am. Even if it's an unsatisfactory view. But an honest recognition is far better than bull****ting yourself towards others for either safety or devious means if you don't know who you are.

So often people are afraid to admit their own inadequacies.

What you are? The most simple question of all to answer. The hardest to reveal to others.