Who Am I?

Every once in awhile we should ask ourselves, who am I?

When I ask this question to myself, I get a different answer based upon my experience and growth at that moment of asking.

Why am I me? One answer is to participate in this time and space and density with infinite choices to live in the moment. I must do this with the nearly seven billion other souls who have come to experience life together and each one of us in the purity of our spirits hopes to be an example of creative change, courage and noble character. If we get caught up in the material world of want it doesn’t always come out that way.

In each generation, perhaps in each lifetime, special souls are born to help us find, accomplish, complete, and create new paths to the Source that give understandable meaning, knowledge and grace to life.

Sometimes individual souls will manifest in science and philosophy – Einstein and Epictetus; sometimes in literature – Dostoevsky and Miller; sometimes in leadership – Churchill and Lincoln; sometimes in music –Beethoven and Berlin; or art and architecture – Michelangelo and Wright and sometimes in belief systems: Moses, Christ, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammad, Krishna, Gandhi, and thousands of others like them who taught by example that the way to The Source was through positive deeds and unconditional love.

If we look at history we find greatness and charismatic leadership in all fields of creative endeavor. We can go to any country in ancient or modern times and find individual greatness that influenced nationalistic culture and global history and we can find individual greed and cruelty.

What we choose to be is entirely up to us. It has nothing to do with where you were born or in what circumstances. It only has to do with choice. It’s a responsibility that most of us forget for it is so much easier to blame another or something for our life conditions.