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“Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.”

Ideas Ego Oneself Delusion Associates

Author:Dalai Lama

“It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.”

People Thinking Asks Answers Ego Oneself Ask Me Destructive Unnecessary Think Of You

Author:Paul Bowles

“Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.”

World Whole Natural Ego Oneself Whole World Remove Discovering Natural Love

Author:Mooji

“always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.”

Thinking Love Self Use Used Language Love Is Ready Self Love Ego Oneself Considerate Inconsiderate

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.”

Enough Desire Church Attitude Clear Modern Wind Ego Built Ultimate Oneself Doctrine Good Enough Sole Dictatorship Fundamentalism Definite Here And There Relativism Modern Times Credo

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.”

World Interesting Brain Ego Models Direct Oneself Philosopher Contact Characteristics Internals Realistic Tunnels Robust Finnish

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.”

Mind Whole Perfect Activity Ego Oneself Cups Realization Inherent Dharma Duality Very Deep

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.”

Knows Bits Ego Surprise Oneself Ugly Odd Unusual Glimpse Facets

Book:Identical

Source: Identical

“True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.”

Mean Suffering Emotion Buddhism Ego Oneself True Freedom

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Self Reason Existence Doubt Dying Objects Ego Rounds Oneself Seeking Disappear Arise Fear Not Seers Doubt And Fear

Book:Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.”

“To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.”

Men Children God Problem Desire Prayer Forget Pay Attention Teach Praying Ego Tasks Oneself Technique Primaries Landscape Pay Attention Idols Secular True God

Author:W. H. Auden

“Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a deep harmony with the cosmos. And that harmony is God; that harmony is nirvana; that harmony is tao.”

Desire Fall Ego Despair Expectations Harmony Oneself Frustration Cosmos Tao

Author:Rajneesh