One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We each have a self, but I don't think that we're born with one. You know how newborn babies believe they're part of everything; they're not separate? Well that fundamental sense of oneness is lost on us very quickly. It's like that initial stage is over - oneness: infancy, unformed, primitive. It's no longer valid or real.
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.
I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.
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.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.
I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
One creates oneself.