#mind #meta #metaphysical # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Self awareness is infinite regress]] - [[Your second-brain is now part of your self]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO > define self > identity > [[Philosophy/Consciousness/Consciousness|consciousness]] # Self >Any movement of the mind, positive or negative, is an experience which actually strengthens the “me”. Is it possible for the mind not to recognize? That can only take place when there is complete silence, but not the silence which is an experience of the self and which therefore strengthens the self. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]]  >WHAT ARE WE? Apart from a name, a form, perhaps if you are lucky a bank account, perhaps a skill, apart from all that, what are we? Are we not suffering? Or does suffering not exist in your life? Is there fear? Is there anxiety, greed, envy? Do we worship some image which thought has created? Frightened of death, are we clinging to some concept? Aren’t we in contradiction, saying one thing and doing another? We are all that. Our habits, our inanities, the endless chatter that goes on in the mind, all that is what we are. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]]  # External links