Only the second response, consider divorce, expresses our overriding respect for autonomy, for the unique and separate self.

As clinging disappears, so too notions of a separate "self."

In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into subindividuality.

That unconscious self-contraction creates separation, which manifests as identification (or the sense of separate self).

A concept in Buddhist philosophy, the "non-self" or "absence of separate self"

Kahneman called this "experienced" well-being and attached it to a separate "self".

"By keeping these states separate and distinct, the patients create biologically separate selves."

We are becoming a nation of separate, resentful, legalized selves.

Buddhism teaches that to perceive ourselves as independent, separate selves, is an illusion.

All sense of his separate self fell away.