I Am Still This: On Identity, Presence, and the Rhythm of Return

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

For anyone drawn to the quiet persistence of selfhood, the rhythm of return, and the gentle metaphysics of presence.

What does it mean to be someone—continuously, recognizably, and without spectacle? This episode moves gently through the terrain of identity, memory, and presence, suggesting that what endures may not be coherence or story, but rhythm—the soft act of returning to one’s center, again and again. Through sensory metaphor and philosophical atmosphere, it considers how the self persists, even when memory falters or roles dissolve.

Drawing quietly on thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, Galen Strawson, Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch, this meditation resists reduction. It honors the unspeakable intimacy of lived identity—the breath, the threshold, the echo of return.

In this exploration, the self is not a concept to be solved but a posture to be inhabited. Through episodes of stillness, disruption, and quiet coherence, we trace the pulse of what it means to say—not loudly, but recognizably—"I am still this."

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To remain oneself is not to remain the same. It is to return—softly, recognizably—to the place from which life is lived.

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