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Originally Posted by HORIZONS
The question of the ages: Who am I?
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As Nietzsche observed, "...if we could communicate with the mosquito, then we would learn that it floats through the air with the same self-importance, feeling within itself the flying center of the world. There is nothing in nature so despicable or insignificant that it cannot immediately be blown up like a bag by a slight breath of this power of knowledge..." (
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense, 1873)
The question of the ages is not "Who am I?"
The question of the ages is "What is Truth?"
Obsessing with the identity of the "I"--and such things as "enlightenment" and "salvation"--is the manifestation of the
problem rather than the solution.