“Who am I?” That is the question one has to ask oneself all the time. In every situation, there is an opportunity to define what one stands for, what one’s core principles are. One’s character gets revealed in one’s thoughts and actions. To look at the intentions behind one’s thoughts and actions is self-inquiry, self-investigation, the deep search into one’s innermost being.
Are one’s intentions towards self-protection, the protection that does not care what happens to others in the process? Or, are one’s intentions towards making other people’s lives better, helping them cope better with their lot in life?
Selfishness vs. selflessness. Self or other.
Where is the dividing line between the inner – the self, and the outer – the other? Is there even a definite demarcation? Don’t you feel some pain when you have wounded someone in some way? Don’t you feel compassion for someone, when they have come up against hardship in their life?
We are connected in some ways, maybe in more ways than we think. Are we all one, as some beliefs tell us?
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