Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.