I have heard many people talking about ‘finding themselves’ over the years and the myriad ways they go about it, I have often wondered what this idea of ‘self’ actually is. It is of course vitally important, perhaps the most important idea of any, as it does inform us of how we should act in the world.<\/p>\n
Apart from the narrow versions that we are somehow more special than any other being it is both difficult and amazing to consider that our individuality flows from one egg and one sperm and that but for the processes of a second we would not exist at all. If you have ever considered being someone else’s children or being another gender you will have an idea of how odd it feels to think you could not be you.<\/p>\n
Of the million, million accidents that bring us to birth and how that birth relies upon every coupling that has occurred in our ancestors since the dawn of life, and how everything they were is in us, self takes on an almost mystical essence.<\/p>\n
It is way beyond name, nationality and something more than gender. It is a connectivity to the life, a voyage on a sea of perceptions, a willingness to breath and a passion to share. The self is nature’s gift to us to meet the challenge to understand all her ways and all her beliefs.<\/p>\n
Far more majestic and more wise than our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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