Quotes by Identity If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as we discussed earlier, we don't have a great definition or even a good technological handle to know whether something is conscious or not just by looking at it, so there's that aspect that we're not ready to answer, I would argue. But it raises very interesting questions about the nature of identity. Edward Boyden identitybraininteresting To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment Eckhart Tolle psychological-needsidentitypast Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us. Eckhart Tolle groupsidentitylong I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things. Edward Gorey artistidentitydoe My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness. Eckhart Tolle down-andconsciousnessidentity A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined. Eckhart Tolle groupsidentityenemy Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends. Eckhart Tolle identityenemyneeds Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity Eckhart Tolle essenceidentityneeds The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. Eckhart Tolle cuttingidentityspiritual It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots. eL Seed identityrootssummer When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity. eL Seed acceptingdifferentidentity I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate. eL Seed identityrootstrying If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world. Eckhart Tolle identityspiritualteacher Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form. Eckhart Tolle vipoceanidentity Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity. Elia Suleiman bordersidentitynew-york It's a false illusion that we wake up thinking of who we are in terms of identity and that we are stuck in the boundaries of who we are nationalistically. Elia Suleiman wake-upidentitythinking I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five. Elif Batuman identityagethinking The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity. Elijah Muhammad identitywhitemen If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group. Eckhart Tolle egoidentitylying I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. Elizabeth Blackwell hermitsidentitylosing«1213141516171819202122»
