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“I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of their murkiness.”

Book:Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

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“We think it is the aloneness we fear, but I believe what we actually fear is not having a home within ourselves. For so long, I did not trust my own landscape. I had believed the stories I learned about it, and I had taken every chance to avoid living there and learning her. Sobriety forced a closeness to myself and to life that was at first excruciating. It burned, and it burned, and it burned. But in the ashes from burning all the things I was not, I found her. I found me. And then I could finally be found by others.”

Self Loneliness Being Found

Book:We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

Source: We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

“[Man] has transformed himself into a thing.”

Self Materialism Psychoanalysis Zen Buddhism Rationalism Reductionism

Book:Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis

Source: Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis

“I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.”

Self Genius Revelation

Book:Autobiographies

Source: Autobiographies

“We reflect each other as mirrors do, but there is no need to look at mirrors that distort our reflection.”

Self Universe Self Love Mirrors Self Awareness Self Worth Psychopaths

Author:Elena Goldberg

“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that incarnate an anxious and artful soul in unusual words. Yes, I think that's what I am, and that I'm absurd.”

Self Anxiety Absurdity Decadence Eccentricity Artfulness

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“When I'm in a library, any library, I have the sense of being translated into a purely verbal dimension by a conjuring trick I've never quite understood. I know that my full, true story is there, somewhere on the shelves, and all I need is time and the chance to find it. I never do. My story remains elusive because it is never the definitive story.”

Self Stories Books Transformation Library Story Libraries

Book:Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

Source: Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

“As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.”

Love Self Ego Id

Book:Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

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