Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sense of one's own personality: a more inclusive term than ‘self-respect’ and broader than ‘self-consciousness.’
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Examples
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Generally, we tend to think of the ego as a personal psychological problem, either our narcissistic self-concern or our painful, neurotic separate self-sense.
Andrew Z. Cohen: Shining Light On Your Unconscious Values Andrew Z. Cohen 2011
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When any individual goes very deep into a meditative state, momentarily transcending the separate self-sense or narcissistic ego, this profound singularity at the level of consciousness itself is what he or she will find.
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The reason I relate to this as a higher self is because it has not yet emerged as a part of my personality, which allows it to be mostly free of the pathologies it will be subject to when or if it becomes a part of my self-sense.
Everything Happens for a Reason? -- Subpersonalities and Meaning William Harryman 2007
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This was yesterday's Daily Om, a good reminder about maintaining a separate self-sense in relationships.
Daily Om: Space In Togetherness William Harryman 2007
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The author paraphrases Heatherton who alludes that the answer is that humans have to have self-sense because we had to cooperate to gather and share food, which requires trust, and that he says requires a sense of self.
Old Timer's Disease Field Notes 2006
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He may also be the one feeding Bush’s self-sense of being the Chosen One.
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In order for anyone to enter the three highest fulcrums of development, all of the previous six must have been mastered and integrated into the self-sense. posted by WH Sunday, August 14, 2005 @ 5:45 AM William Harryman Location:Tucson, Arizona Integral Options Cafe
Jung to Piaget, Kohlberg to Gilligan, Kegan to Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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The author paraphrases Heatherton who alludes that the answer is that humans have to have self-sense because we had to cooperate to gather and share food, which requires trust, and that he says requires a sense of self.
Archive 2006-06-01 Field Notes 2006
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The farther a man goes in vision, the more he sees that the plan is for joy; that the plan is one; that separateness and self-sense is illusion and pain; that one story is written in every stone and leaf and star and heart -- the one great love story of the universe.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905
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For such a small, insignificant spec of land on this great Earth, some of the Israeli populace have a very distorted self-sense of significance.
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