Quotes About Self

I am this space my body believes in.

The first thing you need to know about yourself is that you are not a story.

However, over the last few decades the life sciences have reached the conclusion that this liberal story is pure mythology. The single authentic self is as real as the eternal soul, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices, none of which is 'my true self'. Humans aren't individuals. They are 'dividuals'.

Unlike the creators of The Matrix and The Truman Show, Huxley doubted the possibility of escape, because he questioned whether there was anybody to make the escape. Since your brain and your "self" are part of the matrix, to escape the matrix you must escape your self. That, however, is a possibility worth exploring. Escaping the narrow definition of self might well become a necessary survival skill in the twenty-first century.

Most people who go on identity quests are like children going treasure hunting. They find only what their parents have hidden for them in advance

Inside Out brutally dismantles this myth. It adopts the latest neurobiological view of humans and takes viewers on a journey into Riley's brain only to discover that she has no authentic self and that she never makes any free choices.

Each of us has within ourselves a brilliant ray of light that gives value and meaning to our lives. In

For centuries humanism has been convincing us that we are the ultimate source of meaning, and that our free will is therefore the highest authority of all.

There is no authentic self waiting to be liberated from the manipulative shell.

Identity is defined by conflicts and dilemmas more than by agreement

When we say 'I', we mean the story in our head, not the onrushing stream of experiences we undergo.

you don't feel at home in your body, you will never feel at home in the world.

We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent yarns. It doesn't matter that the plot is full of lies and lacunas, and is rewritten again and again, so that today's story flatly contradicts yesterday's. The important thing is that we always retain the feeling that we have a single unchanging identity from birth to death (and perhaps even beyond).

Liberalism sanctifies the narrating self, and allows it to vote in the polling stations, in the supermarket and in the marriage market. For centuries this made good sense, because though the narrating self believed in all kinds of fictions and fantasies, no alternative system knew me better. Yet once we have a system that really does know me better, it will be foolhardy to leave authority in the hands of the narrating self.

Most Westerners today believe in individualism. They believe that every human is an individual, whose worth does not depend on what other people think of him or her.

But the liberation of the individual comes at a cost.

the notion that you have a single self and that you could therefore distinguish your authentic desires from alien voices is just another liberal myth, debunked by the latest scientific research.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

own voice or have a friend do it for you. When recorded in your own

If I am not for myself, who will be for me; but if I am only for myself, of what value am I?

Human is what he decides to be."

Humanity prevails over all other ideologies because one accept it or reject it for him but he cannot deny it because it is about him.

The power within us is unimaginable but the problem is we don't know how to use it.