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Alan Dershowitz is a renowned American lawyer, author, and scholar, born on September 1, 1938. He is highly respected in the legal community and has served as a professor at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz has been involved in several high-profile cases as a defense attorney. more

“The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Reason Body Source Ego Roots Bounds Reason Why No Reason Nerves Should I Foolishness Egotism Degeneration

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.”

World Kings Ego Kingdoms Firm Demon Stand Firm

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.”

Long Ego Stores Egotism Malice

Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

“There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality.”

Mind Ideas Self Reality Together Force Felt Results Ego Stones Spread Impression Lakes Smooth Rapids Vibrations Transmission Vibrate

Book:The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.”

Body Ego Universal

Book:Practical Vedanta Philosophy

Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy

“This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.”

Whole Body Causes Consciousness Ego Egoism

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“This rascal ego must be obliterated.”

Ego Rascals

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works