Self in sentence

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I still believed my self was all I was.

We've created entire value systems and a physical reality to support the worth of self.

We'd be right in assuming that the self is an actual living thing.

I'm earthed in my essence, and my self is suspended.

And when I'm acting a role, I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment.

And I honestly believe the key to my success as an actor and my progress as a person has been the very lack of self that used to make me feel so anxious and insecure.

It's because I didn't have a self to get in the way.

And when I realized and really understood that my self is a projection and that it has a function, a funny thing happened.

But I'm not ashamed of my self.

In fact, I respect my self and its function.

So here's a note to self: The cracks have started to show in our constructed world, and oceans will continue to surge through the cracks, and oil and blood, rivers of it.

If we can get under that heavy self, light a torch of awareness, and find our essence, our connection to the infinite and every other living thing.

Imagine what kind of existence we can have if we honor inevitable death of self, appreciate the privilege of life and marvel at what comes next.

It was my whole self melting into Michaela's lap.

Now this is necessary to distinguish the self from the environment.

And it's inside and outside, self and other, and other is all very different.

We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

So in order to have a conscious mind, you have a self within the conscious mind.

So a conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

The self introduces the subjective perspective in the mind, and we are only fully conscious when self comes to mind.

But what about the self?

The self is really the elusive problem.

What happens then actually is that you lose the grounding of the self, you have no longer access to any feeling of your own existence, and, in fact, there can be images going on, being formed in the cerebral cortex, except you don't know they're there.

Look at "cerebral cortex," look at "brain stem," look at "body," and you get the picture of the interconnectivity in which you have the brain stem providing the grounding for the self in a very tight interconnection with the body.

Only the wealth of our minds is, not the very fact that we have a self that we can refer to our own existence, and that we have any sense of person.

It's the autobiographical self which some species have, I think.

Cetaceans and primates have also an autobiographical self to a certain degree.

And everybody's dogs at home have an autobiographical self to a certain degree.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

And the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language.

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