Identity Quote by Terence McKenna

I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery.…

— Stephanie Dowrick

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

— George Oppen

“Isn't it strange that what we call "self" doesn't really constitute of our "own". It consists of parts and bits of so many people…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

— Frederick Lenz

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that…

— Frederick Lenz

“You think there's a real difference between 'self' and 'other.' But 'self,' what you call yourself, and what you call 'other' are mutually necessary…

— Alan Wilson Watts

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something…

— Thomas Szasz

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

— Sengcan

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's…

— Miguel Nicolelis