Asked of Buddha:
"Are you a god?"
"No."
"Are you a saint?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
"I am awake."
How to Achieve Self-Consciousness.
I am awake. I'd love to know when the world stopped focusing on the individual. The individual is the key source of the whole. A whole is only the sum of it's parts. Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore, I am. We've all heard this rhetoric before. Descartes understood the importance of the individual as well as Kierkegaard. When did we stop emphasizing the importance of the individual? Why? Everyone needs to know that they are…