Who Are You Really? Discovering Your True Self Beyond Adopted Identities

Who are you?

And I don't mean your adopted identities. What do I mean by adopted identities? Well, your job, your relationship status, your gender, your nationality, your race, these are all identities you inherited. Or even your familial status, a brother, daughter, son, mother, father, whatever.

What if you were to put them aside even just for an hour? Who would be left?

Think of it this way. Jim Carrey, the comic actor, plays the part of entertainer Andy Kaufman in a movie. And for the entire filming of the movie, he is Andy Kaufman. And then at the end of the filming, he puts that character down, and he once again becomes Jim Carrey, the actor. Then what happens if that person sets aside the inherited role, Jim Carrey the actor, he wasn't always an actor, Jim Carrey the actor, or the arbitrary roles or identities that he's been given over the years, Canadian, American, man, son, friend, whatever roles he has.

Same for you. All of these roles that were put on you, what if they were not actually who you are? What if you put all of them aside, even for a short period of time, just to see what's left?

Now, as you sit here identifying these roles, kind of taking a step back from them, right now, in this moment, who's doing that? Who is looking at these inherited roles?

That may be the answer to my question.

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