Speaker 1
I don't know how much of it will be memorable, but that's not important here. Just, I don't think you need to refer a lot to your notes or devices that you have. Just there's not much to remember. There is in the Old Testament, a very surprising statement early on in the book of Exodus, when Moses asks God, who are you or what is your name? And God gives the amazing and mysterious answer. I am that I am. It is sometimes translated as I am what I am or sometimes translated as I am who I am. My favorite translation that is the most accurate one I believe is I am the I am. And then Moses says when I talk to my people so what should I tell them who sent me to them and God said tell them that I am sent you. This is an amazing statement if you realize the deep meaning of it, because it refers not only to the essence identity of the universe, but it refers also to the essence identity of who you are. I very often use the term form identity and essence identity. You have a form identity, everybody has a form identity which is first of all the physical form, the body. And then it is the psychological form, that is the psychological makeup, the personality, that you are, that the conditioning of your mind, your mental, emotional conditioning, that creates your psychological form identity. So you as a person, are a form identity, physical form and a psychological form. The psychological form of course is dependent on what happened to you in the past. It's you're conditioned by the past that is the entity, the personal sense of self. Everybody has that. Now for most people, that's all they have. They derive their entire sense of who they are from a personal sense of self, a historical person. And they talk about themselves when they say my life. There's a narrative that every human has. And this narrative is the story of my life, me and my life. So people, that is what people think about a lot. They thought, what about my life?