' Be Your "Self '...

The self is not a fixed, permanent thing, but an ongoing narrative process.

It’s
dynamic, it’s interactive, it’s engaged in moral choices, it has goals, it has
aspirations, and it is also what allows us to function as a society, as a plurality
of stories, selves that interact and share experiences, learning from and
teaching one another.

“Selfing” is simply the evolutionary strategy that human
beings, probably for biological and adaptive reasons, have been landed with.

There’s nothing deluded or neurotic about being a self in that way.

It’s
actually a very liberating perspective on the nature of the individual.



-Stephen Batchelor, "At the Crossroads"