15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
“The point of full personhood … is this: that whoever finds out what is, for him, good and holds fast to it becomes whole.”
Elaine N. Aron • The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Surivive and Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
One of the ways in which the ego attempts to escape the unsatisfactoriness of personal selfhood is to enlarge and strengthen its sense of self by identifying with a group
Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans
The more we let go of the preoccupations with personal identity, the more we are open to the free flow of sensation.
Daniel J. Siegel • IntraConnected
To live fully means to engage this paradox and be, at once, completely oneself—unique and distinct—and at the same time cognizant that separation is only an illusion
David Jaffe • Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change
a larger and more unboundaried selfhood, the “wave” form of oneself, as it were.
Cynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
We use the term “ego” to signify the inauthentic “I” or self (with a small “s”) that develops to survive in difficult environments and to become acceptable to the conventional world. We view ego as the result of many inevitable adaptations to forces that cannot tolerate the authentic expressions of the Self—helplessness in a small boy develops into
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