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By some quirk of atavism, a certain portion of that early self's language had come down to him as a racial memory.
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When an author tells you they are not bound to any theory, they usually mean that their thinking defaults, without even realising it, to a narrow liberal humanism and its underlying and reactionary notions of the self: the self's command of language; language as a vehicle for expression, all that crap.
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And the path of transformation, reduced to its simplest terms, is the shift from the ego's negative relationship to life to the authentic self's positive relationship to life, which I call "plus one."
Andrew Z. Cohen: The Path Of Evolutionary Enlightenment: From Minus One To Zero To Plus One Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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Fear of death is rooted in the self's awareness of its own mortality.
Claudia Ricci: Students Meet Sid -- Siddhartha, That Is! Claudia Ricci 2011
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And the path of transformation, reduced to its simplest terms, is the shift from the ego's negative relationship to life to the authentic self's positive relationship to life, which I call "plus one."
Andrew Z. Cohen: The Path Of Evolutionary Enlightenment: From Minus One To Zero To Plus One Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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Obviously the self's schemes for imposing control — no matter how ingeniously devised — are often doomed to failure.
Saying Yes to Saying No Meghan Clyne 2011
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I also have a Patriotic Bias and i agree with your statement about the countries actually not having anything to fight about, but it is human nature to wont more and better for are self's, i mean look, my generation is know as the Me! generation.
Patriotic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Palin's are opportunists, they need to get over them self's.
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Most of us have never starved or even had to stay home and help pay for are families living expenses and thats because and quality of living is improving but of course that drive to better are self's will most always lead to greed which in turn leads to pointless wars.
Patriotic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Fear of death is rooted in the self's awareness of its own mortality.
Claudia Ricci: Students Meet Sid -- Siddhartha, That Is! Claudia Ricci 2011
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