selfhood

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Listening Booth Jamila Wood’s Celebration of Selfhood On her new album, “Legacy! Legacy!,” the singer looks to her predecessors to craft a self-portrait filled with affirmations.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 26, 2019

Selfhood, for those of us who grew up in the city at that time, meant building private continuity across a landscape that could change its guiding stars from here to here.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2019

Selfhood is not an uncommon subject for artistic exploration, but several selections are provocative.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2016

"Selfhood isn't something separate from your biological self," she writes.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010

In agreement with this the Reverend Parâsara has said, 'Hear from me the essential nature of Nescience; it is the attribution of Selfhood to what is not the Self.'

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George