Any answer to the question, "Who am I?"...means you didn't get it.
Eckhart Tolle
We are supposed to get to the point where we do not know who we are...[concepts and judgements fall away and without them how do we "know" anything?]
Have the courage to not know who you are.
There is a direct knowing and there is a knowing "about". Knowing "about" is not knowing. It is simply conceptualizing.
Knowing is the "felt experience of." Gnosis means "awareness"...and some say it means the "knowledge of the spiritual mysteries". I prefer awareness to knowledge. Awareness is feeling who we are, being who we are as opposed to just knowing things about this human we call" me"; as opposed to conceptualizing who we are.
We have to go into the deeper knowing which I see as the "felt experience" of. When we ask "who am I"...we do not wait for the mind to list a bunch of fun facts about the body and personality. We do not wait for an answer. We simply fall into the question and feel whatever comes up. Hmm!
All is well.
Eckhart Tolle ( August, 2025) The Only Real Failure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVPveDVk9Ms&t=47s
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