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Quote by Gael Greene

“The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.”

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Gael Greene, born on December 22, 1933, is a renowned American author. Her works are known for their unique perspective and profound insight, primarily focusing on women, food, and urban culture. more

“The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.”

Mean Spiritual Desire Steps Practice Virtue Particular Higher Comfort Ego Judgment Constant Seeking Versions Materialism Bureaucracy Transcendental Spiritual Practice

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.”