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“The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.”

Spiritual Ego Rewards Seeking Frustration Motivated Finding Love Facade Seeking Love

Author:Lester Levenson

“The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Trying Different Bigs Would Be Running School Depends Ego High School Forgotten Seeking Variety Different Ways Consensus Big Ego

Author:Madeleine Albright

“One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.”

Source: Not Under Forty

“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.”

“Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.”

Humans Half Ego Seeking Human Life Tragic Pulling Human Relations Human Relationships Pulling Away

Book:My Mortal Enemy

Source: My Mortal Enemy

“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”

Persons Self Spiritual Attention Ego Flow Seeking Genuine

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears.”

Needs Wells Mean Ready Masters Source Ego And Love Seeking Gods Will Observation Jealousy Poison Owners Disciple Seekers Lotuses Ego Trip

Author:Rajneesh

“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.”

Way Mind Heart Self States Turns Natural Attention Meditation Sacrifice Ego Direct Seeking Inward Inquiry

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“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

“If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.”

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)

“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”

Reality Loss Identity Ego Shining Seeking Entity

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.”