“How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.” BookWould BePastAttentionEnemyStudyHealthySickDepthWorthyAnalysisUnconsciousPriestsThrillingJarsForecastsNot WorthyFetusConsolingOld Books Author:Edmund White
“Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.” ThinkingHas BeensWarFactsSpiritualPayAttentionEnemyEgoConceptsNegativeWho You AreDisasterBoundariesAriseConclusionDestroyedSeekersWar With Yourself Author:Adyashanti
“Some countries such as Iran and Syria are using the commotion to distract attention from their own problems with the international community. The Palestinians, who have been deeply divided since their election, have found a common enemy in Denmark that unites them. Extremists and fundamentalists are exploiting the conflict to promote their radical agenda and win new members.” Has BeensCountryProblemFoundWinningCommunityCommonAttentionEnemyConflictMembersElectionInternationalRadicalAgendasIranDividedPalestinianSyriaExtremistInternational CommunityDenmarkCommon Enemy Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.” MindLittlesEyeYoungAttentionOpinionEnemyImagineApproachImportanceErrorsFollowersSparesSpyAdmirerYoung Minds Book:Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.” KnowsMenShouldChildrenPhilosophyPayAttentionEnemyWifeLife PhilosophyTreatsNeighborPay AttentionSermonsLecturesSubordinatesDelivering Author:Sydney J. Harris