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“We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.”

“Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.”

Littles Failing Events Ego Interpreter Avid Wrong Or Right

Book:Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

Source: Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

Years Two Different Character Three Wise Journey Events Ego Distance Versions Leisure Looking Back Traveler Distracted Impatient Tease Different Characters Alter Ego

Author:Jonathan Raban

“If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Suffering Teacher Teaching Events Ego Minors Dose Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.”

Universe Strong Events Ego Concern Devotion

Author:Albert Einstein

“If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.”

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life

“I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.”

Thinking Love Persons Soul Marriage Events Ego Judgment Where You Are Evoke

Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen

“An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.”

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy

“The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.”

Force President Support Air Military Events Ego Campaigns Nine Operations President Obama Pulling Trails Air Force Aircraft Cargo Military Operations

Author:Fred Thompson