“When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.” MindHeartStillsLightBeautifulAttentionMeditationConditionsFieldsBuddhismQuietEgoSubtleJoyousEcstatic Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.” NeedsSpiritNamesConditionsConversationEgoPsychologicalSeventiesCatalogues Author:Richard Rosen
“Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.” LooksDesireVisionConditionsEgoRelationAddCompetitionGlassesVanityDistortionCorrespondingCloudy Book:The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957 Source: The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957
“I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.” ConditionsEgoLosingSupposed To BeAfterlifeNot InterestedOptimum Author:Karen Armstrong