Clear Quote by Fred Alan Wolf

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

— Anais Nin

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

— Ramana Maharshi

The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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

A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order…

— Josiah Royce

To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

— Frederick Lenz

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this…

— Ramana Maharshi

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other…

— Irving Howe

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

“Self is living entity, not immutable like soul, but mutable and ever-changing life, which is body when observed by senses, and which is mind…

— Kaiten Nukariya

That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.

— John Donne