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Embracing otherness. When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself.
擁抱他人。當我第一次聽到這個主題時，我覺得擁抱他人就是擁抱我自己。
And the journey to that place of understanding and acceptance has been an interesting one for me,
對于我來說，通往理解和接納的路是十分有意思的，
and it's given me an insight into the whole notion of self, which I think is worth sharing with you today.
并且讓我對“自我”這一概念有了深刻的理解，我想這值得在今天和你們分享。
We each have a self, but I don't think that we're born with one.
我們都有一個自我，但我并不認為這是與生俱來的。
You know how newborn babies believe they're part of everything; they're not separate?
你看那些剛出生的小嬰兒，他們認為自己屬于任何事物，他們并不是脫離的。
Well that fundamental sense of oneness is lost on us very quickly.
這種最基本的同一性，會很快從我們身上消失。
It's like that initial stage is over -- oneness: infancy, unformed, primitive. It's no longer valid or real.
如同最初始的狀態已經結束，同一性：嬰兒期未成形的，原始的，將不復存在。
What is real is separateness, and at some point in early babyhood, the idea of self starts to form.
取而代之的是分離，在嬰兒期的某一點，關于自我的意識開始萌芽。
Our little portion of oneness is given a name, is told all kinds of things about itself,
我們同一性的一小部分被賦予了一個名字，被告知關于它自己的任何事情，
and these details, opinions and ideas become facts, which go towards building ourselves, our identity.
這些細節、觀點和想法，變成事實，這些都幫我們形成自我以及自己的身份。
And that self becomes the vehicle for navigating our social world.
然后這個自我就成為一個工具，用來探索周圍的這個世界。
But the self is a projection based on other people's projections.
但是這個自我實際上是一個投影，以其他人的投影為基礎。
Is it who we really are? Or who we really want to be, or should be?
這就是真正的我們嗎？是我們真正想成為，或者應該成為的人嗎？
