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“When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.”

Lost Forget Too Much Objects Ego Infinite Paint Diminish Forget Everything

Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba

“I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]”

Author:Plautus

“I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.”

Mind Humans Sometimes Form Lost Animal Source Ego Formation

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost”

Lost Dark Sun Ego Clouds Dark Clouds

Author:Rajneesh

“The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.”

Use Wisdom Spiritual Lost Enjoy Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Ego Instruments Finding Yourself Exquisite Wise Man Once Said Egoism Be True To Yourself Listen To Yourself

Author:Ram Dass

“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”

World Names Lost Given Term Existence Ego Chaos Defined Our World Dominant Mind Blowing Archetype Dmt Blowing It

Author:Terence McKenna

“It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?”

People Knows Age Spiritual Purpose Asks Lost Loss Civilization Ego Tragedy Old Age Dimensions Cracks Shells Emphasis Spiritual Dimensions Personal Tragedy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.”

Ifs Men Mind Life Is Actors Lost Ego Insane Sage Paranoid Parody

Book:Psychotherapy East & West

Source: Psychotherapy East & West

“What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.”

Belief Lost Simple Consciousness Happened Ego Illusion Importance Died Flesh Naked Cosmic Uniqueness Scrap

Author:MacDonald Harris

“Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.”

Ifs Love Wisdom Spirit Lost Easy Break Meditation Ego Yoga Crosses Wellness Hurdle Ascent

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.”

“Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.”

People Mean Littles Ends Use Would Be Winning Lost Darkness Greater Building Ego Treats Army Greed Riches Occasions Generosity Empires Boots Collecting New Friends

Author:Cyrus the Great

“We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.”

Soul Lost Ego Forgotten Beloved Motive

Book:One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life