Short story: Can we become who we really are?
@innertalks (22864)
Australia
June 9, 2025 10:31pm CST
The Philosophy Professor was philosophising over this quote to his class.
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
This quote is from the well-known psychotherapist, Carl Jung.
The Professor claimed that what this quote claims is essentially wrong in its idea, that we can become anything.
God created you as who you are, and so no becoming is necessary. You just need to remove the barriers that prevent you from being you now.
Life is not about becoming, but about becoming wiser in the being of yourself, by establishing links to God, and to others, via life, that bring you wisdom of living skills, but who you truly are, never changes, as you are already that, just as God is already who he is too.
The divine knowing is already in each part of creation, and we do not need to become anything else to know it.
We do not become; we more wake up to who we are.
We do this by not separating ourself divisively from God, which creates a division in his oneness, and so then, we cannot realise the truth of who we are within God.
Life then is more about our unfolding, rather than it is about our becoming.
We have a divineness within us, which just needs to unfold itself in us, by us watering its seed with learning, prayer, and right living.
We do not need to strive to become anything different from who we innately are. We just need to reveal ourselves to ourselves.
This distinction might seem to be rather inconsequential, but if we know that we already who we are, this should give us the confidence to better live more wisely from our real state too.
And with that last remark, the Professor finished his talk for the day.
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Even a duck is not asleep to its being a duck, or is it? We should not be asleep to our being of our real self either.
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@innertalks (22864)
• Australia
10 Jun
Yes, every part of creation was made for a purpose, and each one of us has our own unique purpose too, so we should try to fulfil, that purpose that God created us for, as best we can too.
@innertalks (22864)
• Australia
11 Jun
Some people try to be what they think that they are, and end up just being a good tennis player, for example.
We need to reach past our own thoughts to become aware of what purpose God created us for.
We can still be a tennis player, but we can use this vehicle to achieve God's purpose for our life too, rather than becoming one-sided in our vision, overly focussed on only this one area, at the cost of all else.
@Mshafeeq (1968)
• Bangalore, India
11 Jun
@innertalks True they can have multiple arrangements they can help or donate to the people who are in need. Some social work would be good enough for the community.
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@Shiva49 (27302)
• Singapore
10 Jun
A duck knows its strengths and weaknesses. It is needed for survival.
It also knows life is worth living as it fights to live than give up easily to its predator.
When we are truthful to our inner core, then life becomes easy.
However, ego and greed play spoilsport.
I have seen a few who are lost in old age as what they depended on earlier disappeared.
Nowadays, old people are seen but not heard.
When we are aware we all take the same path, and live by that truth and reality, life becomes a meaningful journey.
We then stick to the basics - change is the only constant.
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@innertalks (22864)
• Australia
11 Jun
Those points are well made, siva.
Life can take its twists though too.
When life has been meaningfully lived, some life event can shatter this understanding, and we are back at the bottom of the ladder again, having lost all connection to meaning, and needing to find it again.
A duck probably can not know the meaning of its life, but it can give life to its meaning, and we should do the same, when we lose our hold on meaning, we can then see life does not give us meaning so much, as we take meaning from life, by our seeing life from inner eyes, and not just from outer eyes.
Real meaning must come from within by our connecting ourselves to the oneness of meaning in all.
@Shiva49 (27302)
• Singapore
11 Jun
@innertalks Thanks Steve.
I have heard people say, human life is the ultimate among all species here.
However, if we return as a crocodile, we have to be one like them even taking down a human who then becomes easy meat!
It is all a big question mark about the awareness of other species but they are sentient beings too and so better not write them off as also-rans!
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@innertalks (22864)
• Australia
11 Jun
@Shiva49 All are playing their part in the whole, as nothing could be superfluous, or lack purpose for its being.
Human life does seem to be ruling the roost here, for now, but a spanner could easily be thrown into our midst, if some advanced aliens turned up, and turned the tables, treating us as slaves to do their bidding too. I wonder if God would step in to help us in that situation, as happened with the Jews and the Egyptians in the Bible, if that story really happened, and is not just a myth, in the telling.
@Dreamerby (8474)
• Calcutta, India
10 Jun
Yeah but I believe all of us need modifications as we have both good and evil in us. Some habits are good some are not. We have to look deeper into the good divine self in us to change the other not-so-good parts about us.
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@innertalks (22864)
• Australia
10 Jun
Who made the evil parts in us then?
I believe our basic blueprint was for good, and when we move ourselves away from being at one with God, we create a division in ourselves then, where evil is then created in the other side of the division.
