“Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.” FeelsFeelingsHappinessAnswersLonelinessCreationBuddhismEgoOvercomingEcstasy Author:Frederick Lenz
“A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.” ThinkingMenNaturalCreationIgnoranceEgoTendenciesProportionArrogantEgotismInfancy Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.” PeopleShouldClearCreationEgoMissionsPainterPortraits Author:Igor Babailov
“The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.” WayHeartBodyHouseForgetConsciousnessBreakMeditationCreationEgoPrisonSelfishnessTunesBarriersShedIncarnationService To OthersForget YouFree Yourself Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.” IfsLifeMadeWould BeStrongLove IsMysteryCreationEgoInfiniteBoundsDenialLiberationFiniteBondageAssertionHere I AmWhat Is LoveFinitude Author:Rabindranath Tagore
“The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.” WorldTryingDoeSelfCreationEgoPerceptionBasesPerception Of The World Book:Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.” MeanChildrenWholeDreamMovingSocialDarknessTeachingDangerousCreationDependsEgoAmbitionStructureAlcoholWhole LifePoisonSubtleMarijuanaMoving InLsdSocial StructureLife Ambition Author:Rajneesh
“I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.” PeopleWorldFeelsRealitySpiritualBeliefViewsLibertyEnvironmentShareCreationEgoCrisisEmbraceWesternOnenessOur WorldSpheresMaterialisticWorld ViewSpiritual Crisis Author:Albert Hofmann
“Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.” IfsNeedsFeelsTryingIdeasMatterSpiritualHateSpaceCreationBuildingProveEgoSuperiorsWillingnessWorthwhileHate YouEgotismLoving YouLoving YourselfHating Yourself Author:Thaddeus Golas
“But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.” IfsNeedsShouldHumansStillsAbleEarthLeftExistenceLandCreationEgoModelsRemainsPressesKillingCompromiseLiberationFootstepsHuman ExistenceBlundersConcessionsSecond BestOptimum Author:Thomas Ligotti
“A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.” PeopleWantNeedsBelieveHumansImportantEarthUniverseCreationExpressionEgoSpeciesSupremeCenter Of The Universe Author:Ann Druyan