He learned the ability to walk through time from his older self.

Truth to tell, he had seemed so different from his usual self that she hadn't quite known how to take him.

That part of you is sealed off from your real self.

Who was certainly shut off from her world and usual self, whatever they might be.

It was as if he had now separated from his better self.

Good writing is always a very personal thing and comes from the writer's deepest self.

Then he was through; freed from his normal, human self.

Perhaps the Modern, too, wants to be saved from its false self.

The man was a far cry from his former, prosperous self.

At such times you begin to come unstuck from your self.