Find Your Self
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- doesnotexist0
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- yovkov7
finding myself a bit hungry, so i may go and get a snack
- pango1
Has any of you found you self yet?
Can you describe your self if you have found it?- define "finding yourself". it doesn't seem like anybody here knows what you meanscarabin
- I'm trying to figure out what everyone means. i'm about to tell the next twat who tells me to find my self, to"Go fuck your self"pango
- that's what i'm asking.
what exactly are you trying to find?pango - a way of life that suits me. happiness. that's pretty much it.scarabin
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- scarabin0
are you talking about self realization? or going to raves and experimenting with butt sex in college?
why not read up on it?
- I'm not sure what i mean. i'm trying to find out what others mean.
sure i'll read that.pango - it doesnt matter what others mean for themselves its a question for you to find out. do you have the desire and will for it to follow throughyurimon
- i'm not sure what you believe either. cause this question is answered differently depending on belief systems alsoyurimon
- ya.... but i'm specifically asking what it means to others..... so.....
ya.....
and i have stated numerous times that i'm have no desire to find my self.pango - why do you keep thinking i want to find my self? you're preconception is deep. Get out of it!pango
- I'm not sure what i mean. i'm trying to find out what others mean.
- scarabin2
gotcha. well i've always considered finding one's self to be just trying new things until you find a way of life that makes you happy.
i.e., career, interests, relationships, etc.
in addition, it can be useful to build a framework of values to which you can strive to adhere. that can also be a sort of finding one's self.
- scarabin2
to me it's also gaining the ability to separate who you actually are from what you've been programmed to be.
we're assaulted with expectations and fantasies from birth through culture, parents, advertising, and many go through life unhappy because they don't match the image that's been given to them and they don't know why.
breaking free of this and determining what you actually are is important if you don't want to be an unhappy rube your whole life.
- jaylarson0
Such a dope and perfect track to listen when reading this thread:
- text taken from the dhammapadajaylarson
- I'm glad so many people participated. and that this thread didn't end before reaching second page.pango
- and the amount of trolling is way less than i expected. i guess many of you wondered about this question as well.pango
- i thought you were trolling at timesjaylarson
- Cuz I'm sarcastic? Lol Ya maybe. depends on which post was I responding to.pango
- ok_not_ok-1
- this much.pango
- How much do you know your self if you've never been someone else?pango
- https://www.youtube.…jaylarson
- whatthefunk0
“Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self.”
― Ikkyu
- pr22
"Finding self" is about finding out if you do stuff because YOU really want to or because you were told you should want to do it.
It's vital as much of what constitutes "you" is a product of outside forces and thus "you" are not really you. We ALL do stuff because of forces outside of oneself - for the most part we accept certain level of dishonesty but when it comes to basic functions of life we need certainty. This is where "finding yourself" comes into play. Generally i find the more you know yourself the better you are at what you do because you end up facing reality as opposed to the fantasy of how things are.On one hand it's not that difficult - all you have to do it pose a question "why am I dining it" in relations to basic actions (why watch THIS film, why laugh at THOSE jokes, why eat THIS food, why wear THOSE clothes). The difficult part is staying honest with the answers as your ego will come up with all sorts of fake reasons. The reason why ego is working so hard to protect your from yourself is because it doesn't want you to find out how shallow, banal, boring, unimaginative, stupid you really are. However if you are willing to swallow those labels early on then you will find tremendous room for improvement. After all if you know you are stupid in some field all you have to do is hit some books.
- yupmoldero
- this and what scarabin said above are what I was trying to say too. removing external expectations, finding inner motivationssarahfailin
- Q: Why wear a jacket?
A: Because it's cold.
There, I found myself.ORAZAL - <^pango
- sea_sea-1