We are because we think.

[Alfonsoo]

Saw this quote somewhere, can’t remember. But what do you think?

[TheSelf]

Who you are which is pure awareness doesn't depend on your thought process, but it's the source of it. If you don't think, you still are.

In deep sleep you don't think, but you are.

Edited April 26, 2021 by m0hsen

[Willie]

Hello, René. Been awhile.

[Ananta]

1 hour ago, m0hsen said:

Who you are which is pure awareness doesn't depend on your thought process, but it's the source of it. If you don't think, you still are.

In deep sleep you don't think, but you are.

1+ 

[blankisomeone]

I am because I am

because I’ve always been

and always will be

amen

Edited April 26, 2021 by blankisomeone

[BipolarGrowth]

This quote is about as close to Absolute Garbage as any relative idea could get imo ? Flat Earth is just relative garbage. This is trying to make claims about a more fundamental case in what’s likely a pretty bad misunderstanding. 

Unless, what they mean is that our ego is dependent on thought which is what we seem to be and that this apparent self is not present when thought is not present. We (transcendental/true self) are whether thought is present or not. Even without thought, it seems quite likely the ego is still there — it’s simply repressed/less obvious. A subtle ego likely remains. 

[VeganAwake]

1 hour ago, Alfonsoo said:

Saw this quote somewhere, can’t remember. But what do you think?

It's perfect and ego hates it because it denies its reality. ❤

[Megan Alecia]

I'm not your friend, or anything damn

--

That mind-body problem might be one of the great mysteries of the universe, along with the free-will determinism one.

Edited April 26, 2021 by Megan Alecia

[GoobyBooby]

No, you're my dream girl, get it? This is all a dream 

Edited April 26, 2021 by GoobyBooby

[Parima]

I don't think we are. Does that mean we aren't? 

[eputkonen]

19 hours ago, Alfonsoo said:

Saw this quote somewhere, can’t remember. But what do you think?

Cogito, ergo sum (I think therefore I am) is a philosophical statement that was made in Latin by René Descartes.  This is one of the greatest myths and misunderstandings put into the world.

We are because we think is just another iteration that is just as flawed.

When there is no thought...there still is being and existence.  In fact, the "I" and "we" are just thoughts themselves.  When there is no thought...there is no I-thought.

[SolarWarden]

 

First I was identified with the thought process. ( I think therefore I am)

Then I dis-identified from the thought process. 

Then I was identified myself with consciousness. 

Consciousness is ALL and therefore "I" am nobody. Today I am this tomorrow something else.

The only thing that is personal for me is thinking. Therefore I must be the thinker. That is the only thing that makes a "me".  I think therefore I am.

We are back. From Identified with thought and an unconscious creator of life circumstance--> User of thought and the conscious creator of my destiny.

Now. Get the thinker to unify with the ALL

 

 

Edited April 27, 2021 by SolarWarden

[The Lucid Dreamer]

Even before I think, I Am. 

[WaveInTheOcean]

We are "the separate self/human person" because we think.

Let go of all activity of thinking and what is left? 

Pure being. Raw Consciousness.

You become sober again.

Believing oneself to be a mortal separate "self" inside a human skull is Consciousness/God being DRUNK as fuck... Drunk on what you ask? On Its own infinite imagination. On Itself.

That's you?

 

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2021 by WaveInTheOcean

[gettoefl]

god forgets itself, therefore i typing this as an imagined ego self am

ego forgets itself, therefore god typing this remembers that it alone is

 

[Dodo]

On 26/04/2021 at 1:34 AM, Alfonsoo said:

Saw this quote somewhere, can’t remember. But what do you think?

We think because we are, not the other way around.

But you can say: "I think therefore I can articulate that I am", then its a different story. 

Edited April 28, 2021 by Dodo

[Alfonsoo]

@m0hsen I feel like the quote meant our sense of self (ego) exists in pure thought form, nothing more. Withe the thinking gone, so does the "I" and we die. We go back to pure awareness as you said.

 

Edited June 19, 2021 by Alfonsoo

[Mason Riggle]

If you don't get caught up in the words 'I' and 'think', it makes sense. 

You could say, 'inside therefor outside.'

Or 'I am because I experience myself.'

Or 'We are because I dream.'

Or 'It is because it imagines.'

The experience of existence is inseparable from the existence of experience.