Who am I if I am not who I am?

Who am I if I am not resisting? 

Who am I if I am not making my own way? 

Who am I if I am not doing my own thing? 

Who am I if I am not leading? 

Who am I if I am not following? 

Who am I if I do not have an enemy? 

Who am I if I do not have a friend? 

Who am I if I am not what I do? 

Who am I if I am not what is done to me? 

Who am I if I am not what I think? 

Who am I if I am not what you think of me? 

Who am I if I am not what I feel? 

Who am I if I am not what I say? 

Who am I if I am not what I stand for? 

Who am I if I am not what I stand against? 

Who am I if I am not how I look? 

Who am I if I am not how you look at me? 

Who am I if I am not who I am? 

Who is asking? 

Who is ‘I am’? 

Robert Van Valkenburgh
Grappling With Divinity

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