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I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Other-oriented feelings congruent with the perceived welfare of another person. -- Daniel Batson
There is nothing outside of us. It's all in us. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The illusion of our. -- Cameron Conaway
We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by. -- Robert Henri
There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross. -- Michael Ondaatje
The ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others -- Eckhart Tolle
We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite. -- Laurence Sterne
Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. -- Charlene Spretnak
The individual," he began in a soft and sadly philosophical tone, "is not a self-supporting universe. There are times when he comes into contact with other individuals, when he is forced to take cognisance of the existence of other universes besides himself." He -- Aldous Huxley
In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy. -- Jennifer Egan
The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living
creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were in
repose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless. -- Aldous Huxley
A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness.
It's only natural, when two separate universes touch. -- Banana Yoshimoto
There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface. -- Bill Viola
Each reality is followed by one stranger than the last. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
I, myself, am strange and unusual -- Winona Ryder
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature's larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization. -- Terence Mckenna
But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special. -- Jonathan Franzen
We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities. -- Nnedi Okorafor
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. -- Siri Hustvedt
Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode
a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation. -- Christos Yannaras
Striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness -- Erin Morgenstern
Being different is what makes us special and the world so exciting -- Demi Lovato
The other is not outside you but living within you. -- Sri Amma Bhagwan.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. -- Franz Kafka
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist objectively, but their true mode of existence is like a dream: apparent yet insubstantial. -- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings. -- Robert Thurman
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. -- Mark Epstein
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence. -- Allen Ellow
What no one else sees, no one else cares about. -- Elizabeth Knox
Another world, another life, proximate but inaccessible. The elusive . . . Sat-is-fac-tion. -- Graeme Simsion
Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder. -- Edwin Schlossberg
That imagined 'otherwise' which is our practical heaven. -- George Eliot
Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. -- Pascal Mercier
This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. -- Swami Vivekananda
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else. -- Simone De Beauvoir
Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion ... -- Dalai Lama
In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to? -- Mary Ruefle
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality -- Ian Mcewan
Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania. -- Pam Houston
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves. -- Alain De Botton
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think. -- Julian Baggini
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, -- Eli Siegel
A life that is, like any other, unlike any other. -- Neil Gaiman
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. -- Hermann Hesse
At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin. -- Beat Streuli
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites. -- Frederick Lenz
The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves. -- Bryant Mcgill
What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity -- Sunday Adelaja
Naturally I belonged to the bright and correct world, I was my parents' child; but wherever I turned my eyes and ears, the other world was there and I lived in it, too, even though it was often unfamiliar and uncanny to me, -- Hermann Hesse
When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves. -- Samael Aun Weor
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour. -- Anthony Storr
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all. -- Jack Kornfield
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Life is full of magnetic interims that call what is separate and different to become one, to enter into the art and presence of belonging. -- John O'donohue
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion. -- Aleister Crowley
[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone ... Well, that fact alone is staggering. -- Joyce Carol Oates
It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves. -- Chris Matakas
I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my banal habits and living like that seems entirely possible, a feeling that always dissolves by the next morning, when I wake up to the familiar, unmovable shapes of my own life. -- Nicole Krauss
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest. -- Josiah Royce
Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing. -- Don Delillo
Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others. -- Raheel Farooq
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind. -- Sengcan
You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt
One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an "outsider." This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of "the organization man" on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action. -- Billy Graham
ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS -- William Gibson
We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. -- Tara Brach
For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. -- Hannah Arendt
How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities? ... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space. -- Anais Nin
You know who you are. You have always been other. -- Brunonia Barry
Strange are the ways of the mind, and stranger is the fuel of emotion. -- Dylan Lee Peters
Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other. -- Charlie Jane Anders
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego. -- Eckhart Tolle
A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) -- Hiromu Arakawa
Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion. -- Eckhart Tolle
Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones. -- Thomas Van Nortwick
There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves. -- James Harvey Robinson
The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves. -- Wei Wu Wei
But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn. -- Joseph Needham
The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world. -- John De Ruiter
Awareness of the self is more acutely at the heart of things than it has ever been before. On the foundation of self-awareness alone rest all our hopes for a new politics, a new society, a revitalized life. If we do not genuinely know ourselves, the void will now, at last, surely rise up to meet us. -- Vivian Gornick
There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that succumb to or choose one another. -- Andrew Solomon
There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete. -- Parmenides
The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul' -- Terence Mckenna
If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. -- Mohsin Hamid
To find yourself different than others, you must believe,behave and act differently. -- M.f. Moonzajer
Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many spiritual circumnavigators who have returned to tell the tale of the beauty beyond self. -- Kathleen Dowling Singh
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. -- Guy Debord
Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that; when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land. -- Arthur Machen
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. -- Eric Hoffer
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There cannot take place here a second existence, incomplete like the first, except by development of phenomena which are outside the normal consciousness; and this isolation of certain thoughts is again a result of the pathological retraction of the field of consciousness. -- Anonymous
People went looking to find themselves and what they found was somebody else. -- Terry Pratchett
The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside. -- Norman O. Brown
There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence ... it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence. -- Kim Chestney
The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature. -- Ken Wilber
