Friday, June 02, 2006

examining my identity

I sometimes find myself “examining my identity” as other people examine their conscience. As you many imagine, my object is not to discover within myself some “essential” allegiance in which I may recognize myself. Rather the opposite: I scour my memory to find as many ingredients of my identity as I can. I then assemble and arrange them. I don’t deny any of them.

Amin Maalouf - In the name of identity

3 comments:

His_Instrument said...

I examine my conscience and my identity. And by doing that, I hv\ave to eliminate aspects of my idenity that may affect my conscience...Thankyou for sharing Mr Maalouf's words...

Hanan said...

Examining my identity? To me that is just like searching for something that fell in a bottomless pit! Boy that Maalouf person is deep! :)

daktara said...

examining my identity
hi, this is my first time here, it is a nice blog
every body have to check his identity evey sometimes to evaluate
it and to keep the good things and get rid off rubbish
khaled