03-08-2015, 09:47 AM
(03-08-2015, 09:30 AM)Yera Wrote: Still, there are many questions on my mind. What is the exact function of the personality? What part of the Self would persist if it were completely stripped away? I am not my personality, yet when I reach beneath it in meditation I find things that cannot be put into words. Things my mortal mind is simply incapable of fully grasping. It’s easy enough to think there’s a higher “me” there- an essence that persists through change, but to actually feel and attempt to comprehend it is another matter entirely. Could one have an identity without a personality (would the Creator have any actual autonomy or sense of self?), and how far can a personality be stretched before it ceases to be?
my question would less be about how one experiences one's own personality, but rather, how others experience your personality.
for eg, we can get quite caught up in who we think we are, in our own minds, and yet others are the best mirror for changes we think we might be going through.