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generally used when referring to the person someone is talking to or unrelated people and are not used when referring to oneself. The omission of suffixes...

idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison of oneself to one's neighbor, where the neighbor serves as a benchmark for...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 38: 187–209. Dickson, Keith. 2009. "Oneself as Others: Aurelius and Autobiography." Arethusa 42.1: 99–125. Gill, Christopher...

nations close to oneself carries a higher chance of success. The battlefields are close to one's domain and as such is easier for one's troops to receive supplies...

therapy that all but guarantee its failure. Conversely, the helper, needing to keep clients in a state of dependency, may be threatened by the prospect of...

to surrender oneself is to die to everything and to self, to be no longer concerned with self except to keep it continually turned toward God. To surrender...

way to ground oneself to their mortality, by meditating on death rather than life, it is used to recognize one's mortality in order to use life to decide...

folklore and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means. The idea of shapeshifting is found...

stoves to keep the beverage hot. Bajigur is considered suitable to be consumed in cool highlands, or during cold nights or rainy days to warm oneself. The...

having a reduced focus on oneself, which leads to lower self-importance and diminished arrogance, while also possessing the ability to demonstrate strength...

1912). Students often refer to the Fourth Way as "The Work", "Work on oneself", or "The System". The exact origins of some of Gurdjieff's teachings are...

Marcus Tullius Cicero argues that real sapience consists of preparing oneself for all possible incidents and not being surprised by anything, using as...

domains and learn how to define the self. Comparing oneself to others socially is a form of measurement and self-assessment to identify where an individual...

in order to feel the highest form of philia for another, one must feel it for oneself; the object of philia is, after all, "another oneself". This alone...

capacity to give an account of itself to others, and respects those limits as symptomatically human. To take seriously one's opacity to oneself in ethical...

that is designed and intended to bind oneself in the future. The term is used in medicine, especially in reference to advance directives (also known...

which means set apart from what is public, personal and belonging to oneself, and not to the state. It is also derived from the Latin word 'privo,' which...

this process. Being able to identify when the right time is to insert oneself into a narrative and when to seclude oneself can be helpful in dealing...

disunifying oneself from a team, among others. The use of distancing language is primarily subconscious as a means to disengage oneself from acts or...

verb it means to commit oneself by a promise to do or give. It can also mean a capacity for good, similar to a value that is to be realized in the near...