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• Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

  Eric Hoffer

  Individual, Process, Eternal

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Self, Dust

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• The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Animal, Mind, Special

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• Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to fight off those thoughts and others who don't want to fight them, or have just given in for whatever reason and whether they know the darkness they act upon is wrong, they love the darkness.

  Matthew Carter

  Fighting, Dark, Self

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Atheist, Historical, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

  Andrew Cohen

  Unique, Attachment, Ego

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• The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Reading, Government, Tests

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• Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Giving Up, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Women, Party, Opportunity

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• [A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

  Bill McCollum

  Expectations, Liberty, Principles

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• In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

  Martha Manning

  Country, Sadness, Defense

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• I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Problem, Threat

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.

  Cory Bernardi

  Loneliness, Communication, Technology

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• As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Playing Games, Ego, Mind

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• If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

  Norman Mailer

  Vanity, Giving, Style

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• The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Organization, Political, Common

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.

  Arthur Koestler

  Real, Self, Opposites

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• Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.

  Vance Havner

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Mind, Way

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

  Marianne Williamson

  Purpose, Body, Spirit

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moving, Finding Yourself, Mind

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Two Nations, Discovery, Agreement

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• Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Taken, Thinking

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification.

  Matthew Carter

  Struggle, Self, Ideas

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Mind, Body

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