| Because of what is called the "Human Condition" I | | | | is based on the choices you make. We tend to blame |
| think this is one of the most profound and often | | | | everything negative in our lives on circumstances and |
| asked questions among humans. It is probably also | | | | influences from outside but the reality is that we |
| one of the questions about who we are that is most | | | | have the power to choose the effects those |
| of the time left unanswered. | | | | influences have on us. You can say that birth defects |
| As an abused child this was one question I often | | | | and abnormalities cannot be controlled but then again |
| struggled with but in the end I had to figure it out on | | | | it usually is causes and effects from choices our |
| my own because I had nobody left to turn to. The | | | | ancestors made. |
| answer may not always be what you're looking for | | | | We control or can control our emotions, anger, |
| especially if you want it answered from an egocentric | | | | frustrations, state of mind, happiness, relationships, |
| or self-centered point of reference. | | | | reactions to stimuli and to a great extent our health |
| Imagine yourself in a place without influence or | | | | to name only a few things that affect our lives as |
| prejudice from outside where you cannot see | | | | physical human beings. |
| yourself in a mirror, untouched by past experience or | | | | So on a physical plane I am therefore I am what I |
| ambition. Imagine a place where there is no negative | | | | make of myself. The only thing we cannot control is |
| or self defeating inner dialog, almost like floating in a | | | | death, taxes (joke), war, natural disasters and acts |
| void totally without ego and at peace with yourself. | | | | of violence against us. As a co-operative collective |
| That is who you really are. Everything else is the | | | | we can control some of that as well, if ever we are |
| physical and mental baggage you add to your own | | | | able or willing to work together. |
| physical life that you and you alone control and live | | | | So whenever you ask yourself who you are and |
| with or live without. You empower yourself or render | | | | what your relationship to this world is, remember that |
| yourself powerless before those who wish you harm. | | | | you are pure being but that the choices you and you |
| In physical human relationship the choice is yours. | | | | alone make will define your life, happiness and |
| Your relationship or connection to this physical world | | | | relationships. |