The Invention of the Self
This is our hope, that is our longing—that the “I” will be made perfect through time. What is this “I,” this “me”? It is a name, a form, a bundle of memories, hopes, frustrations, longings, pains, sorrows, passing joys.
Jiddu Krishnamurti • The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
What we experience as the “self” is an aggregate of familiar thoughts, emotions and patterns of behavior. The mind binds these together, creating a story about a personal, individual entity that has continuity through time. Everything we experience is subsumed into this story of self and becomes my experience.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
By combining Husserl's ideas and the ideas behind Gestalt psychology, Gurwitsch came to reject the notion of an ego as a phenomenological datum and saw the 'I' instead as a chain of experiences.
gale.com • The Unity of Aron Gurwitsch's Philosophy
The self is – one might say – what the past is doing now, it is the process in which a particular set of ‘given’ events and processes and options crystallizes now in a new set of particular options, responses and determinations, providing a resource of given past-ness out of which the next decision and action can flow. It is continuity; and so it i
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