Learning To Be Human

Learning To Be Human What exactly does it mean to be human? Am I not already a human? Surely anatomically I am human, however intellectually I am a person and this is where the the issue starts. We all identify as a person in one form or another or to one degree or another, however what is a person? According to the dictionary definition, a person “is an individual of a specified character; the composite of characteristics that make up an individuals personality, the self”. This definition immediately highlights an essential issue as it develops the notion of self, an individual, distinct and separate from each other. This concept of separateness divides us immediately and creates distance from each other and all of life. It is a definition of the mind and not of the soul and imagine if you didn’t identify with the mind! What if you didn’t have these ‘characteristics’, would you still be human? What would be left of you? I believe this to be the root of our attachment to our charact