Who am 'I'?

On this site the word 'you' is often used, now is this about personality, Self or maybe even something else?

You perceive yourself as a body in the first place. This is what your personality identifies with. So to begin with, this is your starting point of a 'you', one that believes it is separate through its body, and through experiences (personality), and believes it creates a life. Words and gestures are needed to fill the gap between these seemingly separated identities, and it is essential that you keep yourself focused on these experiences in order to uphold the idea of continuity.

However, you can perceive this self, and let go of thoughts without filling the mental space that then becomes available with likewise input. You somehow knów already that your personality does not create your life (otherwise it would be much more pleasant than it is now), although it does color your experiences. Your true identity can not be found in your body, nor through your thoughts. It is your Self: peaceful, quiet, a state of Being in which you are not completely separated, and you can become aware of this again when you let go of everything you have put in between in order to have you forget this. You do not need words to describe this experience, and even if you would try, you would find them always lacking, since the medium 'words' was not made for experiences of non-separation, it simply is not the right tool for it (like using a hammer for unscrewing something). However, in order to remind you that this experience can be found, words are used in order to reach the awareness that has distracted itself by focusing on separation.

In the columns on this site the word 'you' is used in a certain context, which one time is about who you think you are (personality) and in other situations is about who you really are (your Self).