What Do You Really Look Like to Other People?
There’s a mirror-world to this one. We each have an alter ego, a doppel-ganger of us that’s evolving in there. It looks exactly the way we look. Our walking intellect is here on Earth, and while our subconscious mind, our inner impulses, are here in our minds, they also exist in another dimension, the mirror-world. So, it’s important to clean up wh
... See moreStuart Wilde • The Secrets of Life: Revised & Updated
We see ourselves first through the eyes of our parents, in the reflections we get from them. It’s as if they hold up a mirror for us, and we see our own face in that mirror. If the mirror is clear, we see ourselves clearly. If the mirror is distorted, we see a distorted reflection of our self.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here. That the hunted body we move in has not yet been annihilated, scraped out. To see yourself still yourself is a refuge men who have not been denied cannot know.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
As the American sociologist Charles Cooley put it: “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.” He dubbed this phenomenon “the looking glass self,” and the evidence for it is diverse, encompassing the everyday experience of seeing ourselves through imagined eyes in social situations (the spotlight effec
... See moreYou are alone – no mirror at all, not even others’ eyes working as mirrors. You are alone on a lonely island; nothing can mirror you. Then will you have any face? Or will you have any body? You cannot have one.