Ancestors Quote by C. S. Lewis

“Isn't it strange that what we call "self" doesn't really constitute of our "own". It consists of parts and bits of so many people…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition…

— Anonymous

“It is quite natural to think of the self as something concrete, but it is, in fact, nothing of the sort. Rather, it is…

— Neel Burton

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it…

— Erving Goffman

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward…

— Aldous Huxley

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

— H. W. L. Poonja

The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but…

— Frederick Lenz

There is no self.

— Harry Dean Stanton

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…

— Dan Chaon

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that…

— Frederick Lenz