“Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.” PeopleIfsThinkingLoveHumansHelpingAbleAbilityCasesSacrificeBrotherDevelopmentReturnEgoAgreeDearExpectingNurtureGood WillHuman DevelopmentPrerequisitesOrganizerLove And SacrificeDear Brother Author:Asaram
“To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.” MeanSelfWholeIndividualSacrificeDemandEgoSocialismSocialistNeighbourRefrainCommonwealth Author:Joseph Goebbels
“The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely our moral singularity. We believe there is one God and this one God is pushing us to reach universal values by liberating ourselves from our ego and by serving humanity. We must be involved in this by all means necessary, in a nonviolent way, through the legal, media, economic and cultural systems. We cannot achieve this if there is no courage, if we are not ready to sacrifice.” IfsWayNeedsBelieveMeanShowsValuesHumanityMoralSacrificeEconomicAchieveMediaReadyCitizensInvolvedEgoUniversalIslamPushingServingLiberatingNot ReadyAmerican CitizensSingularityUniversality Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” IfsGivingSelfCareHappinessToo MuchSacrificeSelf LoveEgoCaringSelfishI Don't CareLove YourselfSelf CareSelf SacrificeCare For YouIf You CareSelfish PeopleCaring Too MuchLove My SelfGiving YourselfLove Your SelfYourself And LoveSelfish LoveLove SacrificeLove And SacrificeSelfish PersonGiving Too MuchSacrificing Yourself Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity, for the fuel of my body, for my survival. I've given you, not my sacrifice or my pity, but my ego and my naked need. This is the only way I can want you to love me.” WayWantNeedsI CanFactsBodyGivenMy OwnSacrificeAirLove YouEgoSurvivalBreatheNakedPityFuelLungs Book:The Fountainhead Source: The Fountainhead
“God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.” WayMindHeartSelfStatesTurnsNaturalAttentionMeditationSacrificeEgoDirectSeekingInwardInquiry Author:Ramana Maharshi
“The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.” WayMeanPersonsWholeChristianDiesPrayerSacrificeDyingDivineBecomingEgoUniversalJewDisappearSurrenderTrust In GodEmphasisAltarsPraying To GodGod PrayerSurrender To God Author:Rajneesh
“The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.” ThinkingWorldUnderstandingWonderSacrificeMysteryStageThis WorldDutyDisciplineEgoRewardsConservativeLibertarianRealmsPilgrim Book:The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays Source: The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays
“Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, somehing valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly exisiting. All that you are give up is actually a vague identity . You realize thigs is not true; it's noe the ultimate. This how and why to develop renunciation” ThinkingGivingMindImportantRealizingSacrificeIdentityEgoGiving UpUltimateImportant ThingsScaredValuableEmptinessVagueRenunciation Author:Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
“Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.” ThinkingTryingPersonsBornWatchesSacrificeEgoHumbleAngle Author:Rajneesh
“Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.” PeopleSacrificeEgoPrisonAncientStuckFlatsAncient WisdomLive For Others Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth