Questions about Life? Who am I?
March 16, 2008
“Who am I?” and “what is this world that i am in?” are the questions that arise from the awareness that I am. To find the answers people feel a need to go beyond words and to experience the truth about themselves. It is the longing for real meaning that has led many to look for guidance from the mystics and sages who consequently, have leaped into prominence.Bancroft A. Twentieth Century Mystics and Sages. (introduction)
The mystery of man’s own internal identity-who and what he is when he apprehends himself as “I”-has turned out to be the central concern of most of the mystics and sages, and the biggest snag to placing all these highly different personal teachings and philosophies within the covers of one book has been the many interpretations of this central word”I”.
.”[1] None of them remembering Ruskin’s warning that:
“Life without industry is guilt but industry without art is brutality,” “men” he goes on to add “are so busy digging underground that they are actually forgetting how to live decently above ground.”
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