We are cut off from ourselves, and cut off from the I, to a very great degree.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Each enlargement of the I enlarges each of us.claim0.788
• The I is at once the most personal, intimate thing and a single universal entity — it is personal-of-you and of-me but there is only one of it.claim0.762
  The three qualities of the I: personal, one, suffused with relatedness.
• Connectedness to the Iconcept0.755
  The feeling of being part of the great I, along with nature, achieved through living structure.
• The I or ground is a real thing, something which exists in the world, perhaps attached to matter, and forms a necessary substratum to all that exists.claim0.755
• It requires absolute removal of the individual ego, because what is created can no longer stand out and be separated from everything else.claim0.754
  Ego removal as a necessary condition for not-separate creation.
• When this is achieved, or touched, to the extent that it is achieved, then, that is what I mean by reaching and touching the I, the blazing one.claim0.743
  The final definition: achieving sadness in a work is the act of touching the I.
• The I itself—this thing which seems so rarified, so philosophical and which somehow has a religious origin—is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.740
  The claim that the transcendent ground of existence is accessed through the most direct, childish, personal making.
• The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.740
  The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.