The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

All attention is introspection.

Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.