I think the most important question we ever ask ourselves is “Who am
I?” There are probably as many ways to answer this question as there
are philosophies. How we answer it will determine a lot about how we
observe the world, the possibilities we have, how we relate to the
future and, ultimately, how we experience our lives.

For
example, the prevailing culture, at least in the West, will tell us
that “who we are” is a fact — that we are biological objects in an
objective