The reason you do what you do can be judged as strength or weakness when viewed case by case, but only when one looks at the generality - big picture, can the bigger reason, which is beyond right or wrong, beyond strength or weakness, be grasped. Holding onto (remembering / applying) that big picture - "reason", (which is felt strongest when difficult things are revealed to have had a positive outcome,) during one's dealing with the moment to moment decisions, can be either a positive guiding light, or a tremendously spiritually damaging and blinding aggrandizement of ego: "I am who I am" (In the picture above), only applies big picture, and has no present tense application (as identity is an image garnered by one's perception of one's past and potential futures), other than to shirk responsibility and escape real reason / present tense application. For "I am who I am" to apply to moment-to-moment situations (the present), it needs to read "I am who I am when I am (as such)" (so as to equate the first "am" in that rectified phrase, with the 'present' (through using the word "when") - resulting in a conceptual device/tool which when used in the present, reminds us of a yet unfolded bigger picture-future, and to remain open and optimistic to it - for it redeems us from the limitations in the perspective of the 'box of the present'. This "I am who I am" is an aspect of the biblical hebrew name of God "I will be that which I will be" (hebrew: Ekyh asr Ekyh), which was the divine Name which worked through Moses to redeem the Jews from Egypt (box of a harsh and limited perspective), and a is tremendously helpful / powerful concept to connect with. Holding onto this 'reason', to remain cognizant of the big picture, and then applying it, is 'Fath in God'. /end musing / commentary.
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