“The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.” SelfStatesActionRealizingTalkingDoubtMeditationWalkingEgoEatingHighestNotionNo DoubtSamadhi Author:Dharma Mittra
“Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.” IfsDoeFactsChallengesOpinionTaughtEgoNotionSignificantPackages Author:Jack McDevitt
“People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.” PeopleThinkingCostEgoNotionExtensions Author:Emily Susan Rapp
“The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.” KindWholeMightEgoImportanceNotionFavorsExperimentsErasFrightened1960sAcidHangoverFrenzySubculture Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.” IfsHeartLongIdeasSelfLetting GoEgoFemaleEmbraceMalesNotionOnenessLife And DeathTaoismAbandonPanicSkepticismTaoLong LifeDuality Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.” IfsMenShouldMindBelieveHas BeensFactsSufferingPersonalityEgoNotionDeterminedSupremeBuddhistEnlightenedVirtuousReincarnationBodhisattva Author:Gautama Buddha
“In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.” NeedsLooksKindWholeSupportEgoIllusionLonelyNotionLiberationStand Alone Author:Adyashanti
“The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.” MeanHelpingEgoNotionReally MeanPresenting Author:Gelek Rimpoche