We are each "built" differently.
The truer we are to who we are "built" to be,
the truer we exhibit/serve our "original nature"
and the intrinsic virtues/virtuosities
(The things we do best and enjoy doing most),
and are at the service of our "habitual intuition,"
the better our quality of life
and the more centered/grounded/focused we are.
Getting us together with who we are
is establishing and maintaining a relationship
of mindful awareness with ourselves,
with a clear and abiding sense
of who we are and who we are not,
what is "us" and what is "not us,"
what is ours to do
and what we have no business doing.
Getting ourselves together
with the life that is our life to live
in the time left for living
needs to be the primary orientation of our life
throughout our years upon the earth.
So, what is the fascination
with sex, drugs, alcohol, money, power and control?
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
In my experience too, knowing this, ( “who we are and who we are not, what is “us” and what is “not us,”) and living accordingly, has been the single most important thing influencing my happiness/peace/ the feeling of being content. Whenever I have challenged it or ignored it(for different reasons, mostly due to conditioned reactions, worries about random things etc.) I have been deeply unhappy.
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Ramble, I am quite confident that those who know in every age know this to be so. Jesus said, quoting Popeye the Sailor Man, “I am who I am,” and the Christian world has called him “The Great I AM,” and missed the point: We all have to say: “And I Am Who I Am!” and mean it! And those of us who do say it are like alcoholics who can recognize one another in a crowd, and take heart in each others’ company.
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So it all comes down to “WHO I am” again and again…’knowing’ this, opens the doors to all other knowing, here and beyond!
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