Sentences with phrase «transformation of human identity»

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This means that all phenomena are identical in their constituent self - identity; all are in a state of constant transformation; and there are no absolute differences between human nature and the natural order, body and mind, male and female, enlightenment and ignorance.

When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student «possessed,» as he wrote, «by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life» into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.