Bears Quote by Norman O. Brown

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries…

— Julian Baggini

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it…

— Sigmund Freud

Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become…

— Sigmund Freud

“Reality is an internal impression of the external world.”

— Steven Redhead

There is no separate, inside self and no separate outside object, other or world. Rather, there is one seamless, intimate totality, always changing when…

— Rupert Spira

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

— Sengcan

The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else,…

— Ramana Maharshi

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance

— Seth

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

— Timothy Freke

“Yes, there is an outside world, and yes, there is an objective reality, but in moving through this world, we constantly apply unconscious filter…

— Thomas Metzinger

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary…

— Gish Jen

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

— Aleister Crowley