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Who am I?

Who are you? At first the answer seems obvious: a name, a body, a history of memories, a stream of thoughts that feels like home. Those answers help you live among other people. They also change. The body ages. Memories fade or shift. Even the sense of “me” can feel different from one year to the next.

So what, if anything, remains? Philosophers, mystics, psychologists, and ordinary people have all stopped here. Some say the real you is awareness itself. Some say there is no fixed self to find. Some speak of a deeper Self with a capital S; others use that same English word for something psychological, not ultimate.

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