Atheism Quote by Stephen Batchelor

“If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices, none of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify…

— Thomas Merton

The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a…

— Stephen Batchelor

“I can identify with other people and situations, but I tend not to. I would rather recall things from my own life, and I…

— Bob Dylan

“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth of I…

— Gao Xingjian

“What you take to be a “you” totally separate from the rest of life is really just awareness contracting or focusing on (i.e., identifying…

— Scott Kiloby

“To conceive of myself from the outside was my ruin – the ruin of my happiness. I saw myself as others see me, and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“As we contemplate the enormous variety of factors that must come together to produce a specific sense of self, our attachment to this “I”…

— Yongey Mingyur

“ I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much…

— Milan Kundera

“Your self is your pure consciousness, which flows as it likes. Your personal self is the way you perceive yourself and the patterns of…

— The Unthered Soul

“Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.”

— Huston Smith

“The conflict stirred up by new ideas can be so devastating only because so much of human life is lived in the symbolic world.…

— Kathleen Taylor