Although, this identity stuff makes me feel claustrophobic and isolated.
Words, labels, definitions, etc. gave me lots of trouble over the years. They stood in my way on my path to recovery. They were real stumbling blocks for me. Everyone uses the same words, but they put them together in different patterns and combinations according to the dictionary of their minds. Words are not the process of recovery, merely descriptors.
Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon? Huineng