“Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.” SelfProblemFormDesireDiesTaxesEgoWeightSelf RealizationRealizationHinduismWeight Problems Author:Frederick Lenz
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.” IfsIdeasSelfPaintingNeededEgoSakeSelf RealizationRealizationStem Author:Joseph Beuys
“It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.” IfsFirstsMayHas BeensRealSelfLife IsGoalPersonalityDevelopmentOughtEgoOrdinaryConsciousMurderRemainsSuicidePersonal DevelopmentRuinsRealizationRealisingCorpsesAbolishLife GoalKilling Yourself Author:Carl Jung
“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.” MindWholePerfectActivityEgoOneselfCupsRealizationInherentDharmaDualityVery Deep Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.” MeanSelfTodayConsciousnessKnowingEgoReflectionRealizationEmbarrassmentSelf ConsciousnessImpotenceFetish Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.” MenFirstsHumansStillsWarBeautifulVoiceResultsPracticeForeverEgoEnlightenmentConsequenceCrossesRaisedRealizationPlentyParadiseFollyNightmareWarningFamineTriumphantGrovePascal Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.” SelfEyeSelf EsteemHumilityEgoEssenceAriseSuperiorsEsteemRealizationInferiorsTrue SelfContradictoryTrue Humility Book:Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth
“Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.” IfsLoveRealWisdomSpiritualSpiritKnowingMeditationDependsPureEgoYogaInsightRealizationWellnessMisledSpiritual InsightKnowing The Truth Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.” IfsKnowsLoveWellsHeartMayPersonsSelfWisdomHappensPastFormSpiritLeftAttentionMeditationAchieveHumilityEgoYogaAbsolutesSelf RealizationRealizationWellnessAmbitiousBalancedConditioningOrientationAscent Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.” LoveMindSelfWisdomBodyPastSpiritEmotionMeditationPureEgoYogaSelf RealizationRealizationWellnessConditioningSahaja Yoga Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break us all at some point—our bodies and minds, our hearts and egos. When we put ourselves back together, we find that we are no longer perfectly straight, but rather bent and cracked. Yet it is through these cracks that our authenticity shines. It is by revealing these cracks that we can learn to see and be seen deeply.” MindHeartHas BeensBodyTogetherChallengesBreakEgoShiningAuthenticityRealizationCracksBentRevealingMind And BodyMessyCrackedBack Together Author:Ping Fu
“Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.” DesireRealizingSpaceEgoSacredAbsenceRealizationImpulseTiesIntimateAspirationAspireTime And SpaceInnateLimitlessFullnessVibrationsLiberatedPlenitude Author:Daniel Odier