Who Am I

Who am I? is a Big Question that we all ask. Alternative answers are explored in the video below.

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Answers to "Who Am I"

Who am I > Fool in School

Notes

You are God.

Tvam Brahmansi (त्वं ब्र्हमन्सि)

“I am the body” is the opinion of the fool. “I am body and soul” is the view of the scholar, while for the great souled, discriminating man, his inner knowledge is I am God. Get rid of the opinion of yourself as this mass of skin, flesh, fat, bones and filth, foolish one, and make yourself instead the self of everything, the God beyond all thought, and enjoy supreme peace. Swami Vivekacudamani

You are a distinct portion of the essence of God in yourself. Why then, are you ignorant of your noble birth? Why do you not consider whence you came? Why do you not remember when you are eating, who you are who eat; and whom you feed; do you not know that it is the divine you feed; the divine you exercise? You carry a God about within you. Epicetus

Mine are the heavens and mine is the earth. Mine are the nations, the just are mine and mine the sinners. The angels are mine, and the Mother of God, and all things are mine; and God himself is mine and for me, because Christ is mine and all for me. What do you ask then and seek, my soul? Yours is all of this and all is for you. Do not engage yourself in something less, nor pay heed to the crumbs which fall from your Father’s table. Go forth and exult in your Glory! Hide yourself in It and rejoice and you will obtain the deepest desires of your heart St. John of the Cross

I gazed upon [al-Lah] with the eye of truth and said to Him: “Who is this?” He said, “This is neither I nor other than I. There is no God but I.” Abu Yizad Bistami

On the death of any living creature the spirit returns to the spiritual world, the body to the bodily world. In this however only the bodies are subject to change. The spiritual world is one single spirit who stands like unto a light behind the bodily world and who, when any single creature into being, shines through it as through a window. According to the kind and size of the window less or more light enters the world. The light itself however remains unchanged. Aziz Nasafi Quoted by Schrodinger in Ken WILBER Quantum Questions

Beyond caste, creed, family or lineage,

That which is without name and form, beyond merit and demerit,
That which is beyond space, time, and sense-objects.
You are that, God himself; Meditate this within yourself.

Swami Vivekacudamani

The image of God is found essentially and personally in all mankind. Each possesses it whole, entire and undivided, and altogether not more than one alone. In this way we are all one, intimately united in our eternal image, which is the image of God and the source in us of all our life. Ruysbroeck

I looked for God I found only myself, I looked for myself I found only God. Rumi

Knowing the science of “I am God” is the science of bodies, but becoming “I am God” is the science of religions Rumi

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Corinthians 6:19

My Me is God, nor do I recognize any other Me except my God himself. St. Catherine of Genoa

Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these” are the shining parts, is the soul.[1] The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God.[2] Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Muhammad and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong John Lennon

Father rejoice with me, I have become God… When I looked into myself, I saw God within me and everything he has ever created in heaven and earth… I am established in the pure Godhead, in which there never was form or image. Sister Catherine Treatise

I am he Whom I love, and He whom I love is I: We are two spirits dwelling in one body. If thou seeist me, thou seest Him, And if thou seest Him, thou seest us both. Hallaj Husain ibn Mansure

Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray. Benares is to the East, Mecca to the West; but explore your own heart, for there are both Rama and Allah. Saint Kabir

I am you; you are me You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free; be divine Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Thou art My lamp and My light is in thee. Hidden Words. Bahá’u’lláh

He who knows his self knows God. Muhammad

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hardworking farmer, it will thrive and grow up to be God, whose seed it is; and accordingly, its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God’s seed into God. God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself, in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart

We have on our hands experiences which have opened to individuals and to the race as a whole wider realms of being, experiences which have heightened the quality of life and which have given new energy of survival, and we are compelled to conclude, either that the personal self is a bottomless affair, carrying within itself infinite unexplored chambers and undreamed of energies which sometimes come into play, or that / the personal self is bosomed on a larger Realm of Consciousness from which we draw our being into the bounds of individuality, and with which we may correspond. It has been, as we shall see, the contention of mystics in all ages that God Himself [sic] is the ground of the soul, and that in the deeps of their being all men [sic] partake of one central Divine Life. The facts, at any rate, all point in this direction Rufus Mathew Jones