“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.” MindHas BeensMightPastDesireEnergyWishDifficultWorryAliveAmountEgoHappeningsRelationFrustratedIdleFrozenMight Have BeenDifficult ThingsWhen Things Go Wrong Author:Meher Baba
“The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."” ImportantRealLyingPeaceMeditationAliveBecomingEgoGloryMethodAbsenceClarityBlissGenerousGraspingHopes And FearsDissolving Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego” WorldFactsMemoriesAliveTruth IsEgoPrisonComplexesGhostPersistenceKnotsGhost World Author:Rajneesh
“I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.” ThinkingFeelsMotherGraceAliveEgoVulnerableCourageousRemindersAvoidedLiving ThingsGrace Of GodAstonishingMother Nature Author:Brad Willis
“I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your social experiences and extends a life even if you're no longer in the game or you are no longer alive.” IfsThinkingMatterGamesSocialAliveEgoMachinesGhostLiteralMatter Of TimeAlter Ego Author:Paul Saffo
“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.” KnowsSoulSelfHardWantedDiesAnimalEmotionQualityDarknessKnow HowAliveEgoToughIntellectUselessSufficientWildernessFacultyShatteredResilientStaying AliveWild AnimalSelf SufficientSavvyTenaciousResourcefulThicketsWanted To Die Book:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?” MindImportantMomentsFactsPastAliveEgoConcernedAccountsAwakeningPresent MomentPower Of NowReversal Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the air, the sun in order to grow, to expand, to flow. To remain alive it needs a constant flow; if it becomes stagnant it becomes slowly slowly a dead phenomenon.” IfsNeedsOrderGrowsSunAliveAirSkyDyingWindEgoConcernedFlowConstantPhenomenonStagnant Author:Rajneesh