1.   In undermining the notion of essential truth, however, Nietzsche also undermines the notion of an essential self.

2.   But underneath all that, they remain their essential selves.

3.   Certainly Terese Capucilli suggested that she was involved in an interior dialogue, looking at bones, her essential self.

4.   In meditation, these objects reconnect my friend with her essential self, with spirit, and with the fullness of her life.

5.   Is there an essential self that floats free and above the crossed wires and misunderstandings of human relationships?