On Identity

the question of identity comes to a head only in the context of non-identity, self-emptying for the sake of others and solidarity with others.

There is no inherent identity: who someone is, whether good or bad, depends largely on their environment. If many people have nowadays lost their bearings, this says something about our environment.

all identity is in part myth, the kind that we can use to sort out living, for better or worse, depending upon its uses.

Early, I used the term "fragment personality" simply to give you this idea that identity was not a unit that could be easily defined.

All consciousness is interrelated. It flows together in currents, rises and falls, eddies and breaks, mixes and merges. In this great interplay, however, each identity, however brief in usual terms, is never