“When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

1st Discussion with Young People, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (26 May 1971)
1970s

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Indian spiritual philosopher 1895–1986

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

From Are You the One for Me? (1992)

“When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.”

Alberto Moravia (1907–1990) Italian writer and journalist

Quando non si è sinceri bisogna fingere, a forza di fingere si finisce per credere; questo è il principio di ogni fede.
Source: Gli indifferenti (1929; repr. Milano: Corbaccio, 1974) p. 238; Tami Calliope (trans.) The Time of Indifference (South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 2000) p. 207.

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”

Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember

Source: The City of Ember

“So beyond all the things that you identify yourself with, still there is something called as 'you”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

Eve's Times, June 16, 2009
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Context: Even if I erase all your memory, still you will be here. Yes? Your family will disappear, your status will disappear, your business will disappear, everything that you own in the world will disappear. But still you are here. So beyond all the things that you identify yourself with, still there is something called as 'you'. That 'you' is not subject to what you accumulate from outside. But unfortunately that 'you' has been so much covered, so much crowded with other things that you never allowed yourself to look at that. You always thought that what you are identified with is much more important than who you really are. Now if your focus shifts, then the other dimension can start opening up for you.