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“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.”

Mind Heart Stills Light Beautiful Attention Meditation Conditions Fields Buddhism Quiet Ego Subtle Joyous Ecstatic

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.”

Needs Spirit Names Conditions Conversation Ego Psychological Seventies Catalogues

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.”

Looks Desire Vision Conditions Ego Relation Add Competition Glasses Vanity Distortion Corresponding Cloudy

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.”

Conditions Ego Losing Supposed To Be Afterlife Not Interested Optimum

Author:Karen Armstrong

“We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.”

Humans Use Seems Grows Growing Up Conditions Ego Obvious Human Condition

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.”

People Believe Persons Doe Known Cases Conditions Personality Ego Disorder Narcissism Entitled Paranoid Narcissist Personality Disorders

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?”

Humans Struggle Conditions Ego Endless Defined Human Condition Subterfuge

Author:Roméo Dallaire

“Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.”

Pain Happiness Forget Conditions Ego

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.”

People Ifs Way Looks Facts Spiritual Values Culture Universe Conditions Particular Truth Is Ego Weakness Contemporary Behave Standing Out Spiritual Truth True Strength

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.”

Humans Spirituality Three Existence Compassion Path Conditions Letting Go Ego Unconditional Human Existence Intersections

Author:David Richo