“Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.” PersonsFormUniverseIgnorancePersonalityEgoManifestationSeparateness Author:Frederick Lenz
“We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.” WorldNeedsFeelsWishWaterCommonEgoConscienceAgreementDrop Of WaterSeparateness Author:Mark Tobey
“The point is that if you accept that there is only one energy in all things, then on an energy level there is no giving or receiving - just energy moving around within itself. It's only the ego that sees a separateness in things. So the ego will say, "The Cadillac went from Harry to Sally." But on an infinite level, it is neither Harry's nor Sally's, it is a part of all things. It is. Where it finds itself and whose name is on the owner's manual is irrelevant.” IfsGivingMovingNamesEnergyLevelsAcceptingEgoAll ThingsInfiniteOwnersReceivingIrrelevantManualsSeparatenessCadillacsEnergy Levels Author:Stuart Wilde
“The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!” FacesIndividualRealizingSeeingIdentityEgoSittingConcernMiseryRejectionBranchesCherishAnxiousCrashFear Of DeathExaggeratedHallucinationsSeparatenessValuation Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.” KnowsFeelsMindHeartMomentsFeelingsBeautifulSpiritualityBeliefSpeakForgetMysteryEgoManifestationSunsetEntityForget YouSeparatenessBeautiful Sunset Author:Rajneesh
“As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.” PeopleIfsFeelsDiesNationsGrowsCommunitySpaceAnimalLevelsEgoOceanConcernRiversIndividualityAll TimeOur TimeOld PeopleTime And SpaceAssuredPositivelySeparatenessNature Life Author:Alexander Lowen
“As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.” WaySelfEgoIllusionConnectionsDrivenEmpoweringContemplatingHolisticSeparateness Author:Wayne Dyer