Thinking of those two men standing at the Crenshaw Boulevard exit of the Santa Monica freeway, I wonder about the self images that each carries around with himself.
They were just words that helped burnish the self-image that made their lives more livable.
Almost more important than the functionality of the device is the self-image that comes with it.
"When people meet with major catastrophe, we throw away the self-image that has been created to protect ourselves in our regular lives and lay bare the self essence residing in the deepest recesses of our hearts," Lukjan narrated.
The company had embodied the self-image that Houston business leaders hold dear: it was entrepreneurial, aggressive and ground breaking.
Nonetheless many Texans still hold dear the self-image that Ann W. Richards spoke of several years ago when, as governor, she dedicated an enormous roadside statue of one of the state's icons, Sam Houston.
It seems as if they need to have their tastes validated by the masses — or by the businesspeople — in order to avoid, in their own eyes, the charge of elitism; they don't like the self-image that they get from calling commercially successful Hollywood movies bad.
"Even a few voices disturb the self-image that the political leadership has developed, and the government is concerned that criticism can quickly develop into wider political opposition.
This insane dynamic - the reluctance to accept parts of ourselves that don't fit the self-image that we've created, who we like to think that we are, and who we want to appear to others - is actually a universal human experience.
You have met a foe in combat: perhaps a timid mind that doubts, -- "can I do it" -- perhaps a body that aches with a cut to the right and a lunge to the left, perhaps a self image that says: "I once looked sleeker in such short and revealing clothes".
Yoga draws people inward to focus on the moment and lose the sense of a self image that focuses on the outside.
