Having a name is useful - it lets you know which birth certificate is yours - but it quickly turns into a limitation. Your name is a label. It defines you as having been born at such and such a time and place to a certain set of parents. After a few years your name defines you as going to such and such a school, then on to such and such a profession. By the time you are thirty, your identity is hemmed in by a box of words. The wall of the box might consist of the following: "Catholic tax lawyer, educated at Cornell, married with three children and a mortgage." These facts may not be inaccurate, but they are misleading. They trap an unconditioned spirit inside conditions.
Many of these limitations seem to pertain to you when in fact they only pertain to your body - and you are far more than your body.
(DC - The Way of the Wizard)
Who am I?
Me? I am just me .. a soul wandering the earth ..on a journey seeking to understand myself and others - and finding that the answer to all the mysteries probably lie deep within each of us. (Taken from my profile)
My name is Sylvester (Syl for short - and some called me Jay). But Sylvester is not me. That name is attached to lots and lots of people. :)
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