Identity is to self as a cover is to a book. It is the face of self. We learn to recognize ourselves by our cover, by familiar patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Identity is built on a sentence that starts, "I am a person who..."
Identity includes the emotions by which we know ourselves. "I am a person who is...(angry, afraid, sad)." And characteristic ways we cope. "I am a person who...(shouts, avoids, gives up, drinks)." Identity born of reacting to life is left behind when we leave the body.
Identity that grows from what we've learned becomes part of self. Of soul. It is an enduring core wisdom that evolves with each life. "I am a person who has realized..." is the place where self and identity merge, and the reason we are here.
Sweetness...
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