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“The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.”

Persons Has Beens Two Suffering Compassion Virtue Ego Available Shells Great Love Equanimity

Author:Richard Rohr

“Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.”

Mind Humans Body Spirit Human Beings Behinds Ego Empty And Love Buddhist Love Life Hiding Ecstasy Shells Innate Human Body Cosmology Empty Shell

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.”

Wells Heart Soul Age Language Offers Ego Skins Gender Shells Echoes True Life

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.”

Ego Hardest Shells Hardest Thing

Book:Essays in Zen Buddhism

Source: Essays in Zen Buddhism

“Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

Purpose Suffering Realizing Ego Cracks Shells Unnecessary True Freedom No Compassion Unnecessary Suffering

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?”

People Knows Age Spiritual Purpose Asks Lost Loss Civilization Ego Tragedy Old Age Dimensions Cracks Shells Emphasis Spiritual Dimensions Personal Tragedy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.”

Should Age Middle Materials Periods Ego Ambition Aging Possession Birthday Shells Middle Ages Accumulation

Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”

Ifs Different Form Ability Animal Identity Particular Ego Who You Are Attachment Over You Cherish Slips Shells Get Over Deities Labeling Different Animals

Author:Zeena Schreck