whom, after all, am I...?

“When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leaped to the later like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.
Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are...”

-Ged, Archmage of Earthsea, from “The Farthest Shore” by Ursula K. Le Guin