Self in sentence

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I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves.

You connect your family, identity and your self.

Now I'm going to leave you with a self portrait.

They are a very significant part of who he is, they shape his sense of self and they shape his sense of his future, particularly so during adolescence.

And you see the self confidence almost comes back, but not quite.

Then she tipped over and rolled back onto her back, and once there, she managed to do it all over again, rolling and wiggling her 12-pound self under a coffee table.

The self: you are self-aware.

He said, "That is the battle of the self, the battle of the ego."

It is this merging of our self with divinity that is the lesson and purpose of our spiritual path and all of our faith traditions.

Behind issues of security and safety, which have always been the arguments for social control, in fact what is going on is that these institutions are trying to decide who, in fact, has a right to self determine their attention, to decide, whether they should, or not, be isolated.

Understanding my own self, understanding my own pain, my own isolation, was my greatest teacher.

All of us are public and private beings, and if all you're going to get from the interviewee is their public self, there's no point in it.

I was trying to get them to say what they probably wanted to say, to break out of their own cocoon of the public self, and the more public they had been, the more entrenched that person, that outer person was.

The public self, the beauty, the intellect, and she walked around and talked to every person there and then went back into the room and was never seen again.

And this, of course, is the basis of much of Eastern philosophy, and that is there is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people.

So, I'm saying the mirror neuron system underlies the interface allowing you to rethink about issues like consciousness, representation of self, what separates you from other human beings, what allows you to empathize with other human beings, and also even things like the emergence of culture and civilization, which is unique to human beings.

I actually realized once in Kosovo, when I watched a man break down, that bullets are actually hardened tears, that when we don't allow men to have their girl self and have their vulnerability, and have their compassion, and have their hearts, that they become hardened and hurtful and violent.

When her father saw her and saw who she had become, in her full girl self, he threw his arms around her and broke down crying.

Maybe that's what adversity gives us: a sense of self, a sense of our own power.

There is an experiencing self, who lives in the present and knows the present, is capable of re-living the past, but basically it has only the present.

And then there is a remembering self, and the remembering self is the one that keeps score, and maintains the story of our life, and it's the one that the doctor approaches in asking the question, "How have you been feeling lately?" or "How was your trip to Albania?" or something like that.

Those are two very different entities, the experiencing self and the remembering self, and getting confused between them is part of the mess about the notion of happiness.

Now, the remembering self is a storyteller.

Now this is a direct conflict between the experiencing self and the remembering self.

From the point of view of the experiencing self, clearly, B had a worse time.

And if you do that for a couple of minutes, you have made the experiencing self of Patient A worse off, and you have the remembering self of Patient A a lot better off, because now you have endowed Patient A with a better story about his experience.

Now, the experiencing self lives its life continuously.

Most of them are completely ignored by the remembering self.

And how to spend it would seem to be relevant, but that is not the story that the remembering self keeps for us.

So we have the remembering self and the experiencing self, and they're really quite distinct.

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