Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
Diligently practice identifying yourself as a limitless expression of an unliminted Universe.
It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.
I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.
There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
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