Compassion vs democracy 2

We are all experts on ourselves, but who are we?

We can define ourselves on external factors as nationality, family, work education. That is all right if that is relevant.

We can also define ourselves on personal factors, as sex, age, health.

And we can define ourselves on mind factors as attitudes and intentions, convictions and skills.

Often the mind factors are an effect of our external situation and our personal situation. 

But we can also turn it around, and start our definition of ourself on mind level.

If we do, we can have no external authorities. We can learn from others, but we can accept only that our mind accepts as relevant and right.

If we define ourself from mind level we can be safe in any situation. We might have a local idiom, but that is all right if its is decided boy ourself.