Identity Quote by Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.”

— Rick Hanson

“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human…

— Aldous Huxley

“The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“The Illusory Self I am composed of body and soul, I seem to have mind, reason, sense, yet I find none of them my…

— Philo of Alexandria

“The fundamental construct of self and other is becoming untenable.”

— James Hamblin

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

“...afflictions arise from identifying with a false sense of self, whereas great contentment arises from seeing the true nature of things. If one believes…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“All phenomena—causes and effects, agents and actions, good and bad—merely exist conventionally; they are dependent-arisings. Because phenomena depend upon other factors for their existence,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones…

— Thomas Merton

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

— Wei Wu Wei

“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and…

— Neel Burton

“The nature of the self is just like space: empty, infinitely empty, formless.”

— Osho