#separate self

[kellymagovern]

Richard Alpert (before he became Ram Dass) talking about the LSD experience and the dissolution of the separate self.

[everythinkaloud]

I just wish you knew, that there’s no concrete definitive you

[everythinkaloud]

Life’s a pretty miserable place if you only believe in your small self

[everythinkaloud]

There is nothing anyone can give you that you don’t already have

[dean-isley]

[peacemore-springs]

Destiny Shapers Shape With Influence

'an influx of flowing matter'

There is no such an entity as a separate self entity. Each of us is influenced by a number of continuously changing influences. These influences have their effect upon who and what we are. They can motivate and they can demotivate. Throughout any given day we are influenced over and over by a countless number of influences upon us. None of these influences are fixed and none are constant.

‘the flowing in of ethereal fluid (affecting human destiny)’

[alunah-lalunah]

Now I will save your money for long trips to ashrams. What is more I will save you from your illusions.

No, that is not possible - to live without a sense of separate self inside society — if you take society on its terms.

Society is built around the fiction of the separate self. The roles, expectations, identities — all of it depends on everyone believing: "I am this person, I have this history, I want these things."

So if you go play their game, you get caught in their net.

[everythinkaloud]

Sometimes I catch myself trying to be a someone, and in that moment I let it go