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“What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.”

Given Ego Highest Including Indispensable Given Up

Book:Buber's way to

Source: Buber's way to

“To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence.”

Thinking Way Feels Self Views Compassion Depends Involved Ego Salvation Including All Time Transcendence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous - that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.”

Mean Persons Different Reality Individual Consciousness Ego Including Fixed Ambiguous Lsd

Author:Albert Hofmann

“The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.”

World Self Body Reality Ego Conscious Including Psychological Productive Stimulus Receiver Outer Worlds

Author:Albert Hofmann

“My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.”

Want Needs Mines Ego Including Soothing Want Him

Book:Magic Slays

Source: Magic Slays

“Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.”

“I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Years Believe Persons Film Teaching Particular Taste Ego Areas Agree Including Definitions Revenge Superiors Fallen Snob Great Film

Author:Roger Ebert

“Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.”

Form Spirit Certain Ego Including Manifestation Emptiness Radiant Obstruction Exuberance

Book:The Essential Ken Wilber

Source: The Essential Ken Wilber