All of us have multiple and internally divided selves
All of us have multiple and internally divided selves. Therefore we have the ability to take 2 contradictory or clashing 'selves' and live with both or synthesize. Eg old age and joy
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
In the book
Not a single, simple thing. We are all made of multiple, internally divided selves, which is exactly why a person can hold two contradictory wishes at once. There is the self that lives each moment and the self that remembers it afterward. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)