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Examining Our Sense of Identity and Who We Are

Who are you? No...really...have you ever really considered that question? In the small of the night, when you are sitting naked in the dark, what is it that defines you? In these uncertain times, it is an imperative consideration because, when things are seemingly out of control and the center has been lost, when we find ourselves having to give up the people and things that we love for a time or forever, there is a place within ourselves to which we must return. What is that place for you?

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Great Post!

This is a wonderful post and so true. It's very difficult to find that center when we've spent a lifetime ignoring it, giving it away or not even realizing it was ours to claim.

Thanks

Excellent post, Michael. Thank you.

Wow!

This is one of your best, Michael. Thanks very much.

Thanks, Lynette...

...for your too kind words.

Blessings,
Michael

Brilliantly written! I just

Brilliantly written! I just came across your blog tonight and I assure you that I'll be reading your posts regularly. You have an amazingly fluent way of expressing your ideas.

Thanks...

Thank you for your kind words.

Blessings,
Michael

Identity and "Why"

It seems to me a lot of internal dialogue tends to squew the sense of self. There is part of me that questions the act of requiring the self to answer to all of its likes and dislikes. I am good with the idea that identity is a combimbination of the things we relate to and with. Maybe there is a deep prejudice in me of the word and attempts to overcome it have failed so I have given up. I like the world I do not question why but prefer when and how much.

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Michael J. Formica, M.S., M.A., Ed.M., is a psychotherapist, teacher and writer. He is an Initiate in the Shankya Yoga lineage of H.H. Sri Swami Rama and the Himalayan Masters.

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