Do you know who you are? For a very long time I've been interested in self-knowledge, psychology, Enneagram, spiritual growth etc. but I still feel I do not know who I am. My self-image is like a drifting ship, lonely roamer with no home at all...
I can relate to many kinds of people, I can tell what they are like and then transform myself to share their wave lengths more closely... I know others but I don't know myself - although this knowledge is also some kind of self-awareness
But I'd love to deepen my self-knowledge to grow, to be wiser. How can one do that when the base has been lost or has never been created? How can one build anything on water? Or am I wrong about the water?
I pay attention to the feelings of others and to my own thoughts but not that much to my own feelings. That used to make me feel like a slave to them. Recently I've noticed that especially unconstrained things that provoke emotional reactions in my soul enhance my self-awareness and self-knowledge: music, reading, movies - any kind of uplifting stories really. But feelings, they remain floating in the air never descending, I can't catch them, can't build my self-knowledge based on them only... I want something more solid. And searching seems futile until you know what you are looking for... Or then the journey is the thing.
Anyway, I'd like to know who am I actually... For example many Fi-users seem to know themselves, what they like, what they need, what they want. I don't. But I'd love to acquire more stable base for myself. So, I'd love to hear how have you solved this kind of dilemma if you have ever experienced such a thing
I can relate to many kinds of people, I can tell what they are like and then transform myself to share their wave lengths more closely... I know others but I don't know myself - although this knowledge is also some kind of self-awareness
I pay attention to the feelings of others and to my own thoughts but not that much to my own feelings. That used to make me feel like a slave to them. Recently I've noticed that especially unconstrained things that provoke emotional reactions in my soul enhance my self-awareness and self-knowledge: music, reading, movies - any kind of uplifting stories really. But feelings, they remain floating in the air never descending, I can't catch them, can't build my self-knowledge based on them only... I want something more solid. And searching seems futile until you know what you are looking for... Or then the journey is the thing.
Anyway, I'd like to know who am I actually... For example many Fi-users seem to know themselves, what they like, what they need, what they want. I don't. But I'd love to acquire more stable base for myself. So, I'd love to hear how have you solved this kind of dilemma if you have ever experienced such a thing