It's difficult to answer the question "who am I?"

An eye can’t see itself without the help of reflection. What it's searching for is the thing that’s doing the looking.

While an eye may see its reflected self, it can never explain its character. Because it is its character. If an eye wanted an answer to the question “what am I?” it would have to step outside itself in some way. The eye would perhaps be best off simply answering, “I’m something that just asked the question ‘what am I?’ ”

Your energy is the character of your awareness at any point in time. It is your “I.” Any thoughts you have, whatever their content, are a pattern of energy.

'You' as a Subject of Awareness

Let’s try it from a different angle, as the bishop said to the barmaid.

You are made of beliefs.

You were built from DNA, which is a set of expectations about life’s potential challenges. Then you alter your beliefs and acquire new ones based on experiences. 

How your “energy” infuses you is how your deepest beliefs show up. People learn to read your energy, and connection becomes possible.

When you observe the contents of your thought, perhaps during meditation, you are really observing a reflection. The words and meanings you feel in your mind are not You: they are a product of You.  

When you're filled with the energy of sadness, you think words of accusation or self-reassurance:

This is so-and-so’s fault; that’s how I know it’ll be OK.

The meanings in those words aren’t real or true. They’re simply a reaction, just like the knee-jerk reflex.

“You” aren’t something that can be covered by words. You’re deeper than that. Adjectives like “kind” or “ambitious” might have something to do with who you are. But it’s the same kind of “something to do with” that includes your laptop and your collarbone.