Identity Quote by Rick Hanson

“A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.”

— Michael Adzema

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

— James Hamblin

“The self does not stand alone; as we’ve seen, the self is not a thing, let alone a thing in itself. Rather, we experience…

— Robert W. Fuller

“Does all that exist of itself, or is it only an emanation of myself, a logical development of my ego which alone has existed…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“In another sense he is “being itself,” in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the contingent is…

— David Bentley Hart

“In the relative, one is the self and in reality, One is the absolute Self! As long as transactions of temporary things are ongoing,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.”

— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything…

— Anonymous

“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

“Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self…

— Gian Kumar