Oh my word Self, Selves, Shelf, Shelves(2)

Is the sense of self is a sheer activity in the human being’s brain, or is there a unique tangible thing such as the self, residing inside a person? Find out your selves.

“The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.” –Bryant H. McGill

Self is the consciousness of ‘I’ in the human mind?

Where does your self resides in the body?

Where is your self in the body? Have you ever felt it yourself? Did someone remind you about it?

Anu Aggarwal explains about the self in her memoirs ‘Anusual’: “At the school, with my eyes and sunburnt golden brown face under cover, I heard the phantasmal figure on stage give the most phenomenal talk I had ever heard. For an hour I paid rapt attention to the gentle male voice: There is a body, and there resides consciousness about our interactions with the world—the conscious sheath. Inside the body is the mind: emotions, feelings and impressions reside here. And inside that is the soul or the supreme, the actual seat our ‘real’ self—our seed, the centre. In a normal human being all three, the body the mind, and the soul, are disconnected. We are unbalanced.”

Self is a noun. Its plural form is selves. Self is a person’s individuality, the essence of his or her true self.

Self refers to the person or thing as the object of introspection, or reflective action, or a meditative state in order to feel it (the consciousness of the self). Self also refers to one’s own indulgences, pleasures, concentration on indulgences or pleasures.

Colloquially, self means common sense, myself, yourself, himself (in this context, its plural form is selves – your good selves).

Self is also the ego of a person, one’s heart of hearts, persona, character, personality, psyche, soul, spirit, mind, intellect; one’s innermost feelings,

When you go to a library (not a digital one), how can you trace a book, if you are by yourself without the support of the librarian who might be busy with himself or herself? By its shelf mark. Shelf marks is a notation on a book showing its place in a library.

One’s better self is one’s nobler self. One’s former self or old self indicates to one’s how or she was formerly.

Self- forms expressions expressing reflexive actions, directed towards oneself – self-respect, self-cleaning, self-evident (understandable to oneself without the aid of an external agency), self-critical…

Can you shelve your ‘self’ from yourself to experience something more than yourself?

Kovuuri G Reddy