Comments on: You Are Not *Your Name* http://www.jamesrick.com/you-are-not-your-name/ Live Your Full Potential Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:39:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: James Rick http://www.jamesrick.com/you-are-not-your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-27536 James Rick Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:11:01 +0000 http://jamesrick.com/blog/2008/02/26/you-are-not-your-name/#comment-27536 Hi Kimberly, Excellent question. What is a fork? It is a label for a metallic eating device. What is James Rick? It is a label for flesh and bones and a past to go along with it. Labels are useful for distinguishing between things so for now - call my flesh and bones identity James Rick so you can distinguish me between other flesh and bones identities - but just because you call me that doesn't mean that's who I am. Names like words DO have power - because of the MEANING we have associated with them. People did not know what your son's name meant until someone told them - and then the label had power. So yes - we should use words because they have the power to influence, and we should use labels because they have the power to distinguish but we should not confuse our true selves with those labels or the meanings associated with them. - JR Hi Kimberly,

Excellent question. What is a fork? It is a label for a metallic eating device. What is James Rick? It is a label for flesh and bones and a past to go along with it. Labels are useful for distinguishing between things so for now – call my flesh and bones identity James Rick so you can distinguish me between other flesh and bones identities – but just because you call me that doesn’t mean that’s who I am.

Names like words DO have power – because of the MEANING we have associated with them. People did not know what your son’s name meant until someone told them – and then the label had power.

So yes – we should use words because they have the power to influence, and we should use labels because they have the power to distinguish but we should not confuse our true selves with those labels or the meanings associated with them.

- JR

]]> By: Kimberly http://www.jamesrick.com/you-are-not-your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-27499 Kimberly Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:22:48 +0000 http://jamesrick.com/blog/2008/02/26/you-are-not-your-name/#comment-27499 If you are not your name why are you James Rick? I called my son Abraham because I want people to have a nice thought in there head when they hear it. And always they say what a nice name. When people hear it they associate it with selflessness and the greater good (also almost every country and language on earth knows this name). It is a strong name and my son will have to grow into it. He is not comfortable with the name yet. He has modified his name from the Arabic Ibrahim to Ibro, this is what his friends call him. But names like words have power. If you are not your name why are you James Rick? I called my son Abraham because I want people to have a nice thought in there head when they hear it. And always they say what a nice name. When people hear it they associate it with selflessness and the greater good (also almost every country and language on earth knows this name). It is a strong name and my son will have to grow into it. He is not comfortable with the name yet. He has modified his name from the Arabic Ibrahim to Ibro, this is what his friends call him. But names like words have power.

]]> By: Lorena Omelda http://www.jamesrick.com/you-are-not-your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-25579 Lorena Omelda Sat, 10 May 2008 22:30:51 +0000 http://jamesrick.com/blog/2008/02/26/you-are-not-your-name/#comment-25579 If the awareness to understand ourselves completely be harnessed to comprehend others as well, we are not that far from reaching your so called 'heaven on earth'. If the awareness to understand ourselves completely be harnessed to comprehend others as well, we are not that far from reaching your so called ‘heaven on earth’.

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