“In deep sleep, even though one does not exist as an externally or internally conscious ego, one can report a good nights sleep because a very subtle ego remnant remains, permitting the experience of limitless and bliss.” DoeSelfNightSleepEgoConsciousRemainsBlissReportsSubtleLimitlessGood NightRemnantsGood Night SleepDeep Sleep Author:James R. Swartz
“Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.” SleepEgoManageCapabilityCan't SleepServant LeadershipServant Leader Book:Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness Source: Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
“...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.” HandsDesireBornSleepSourceEgoBlissIncompletenessDeep Sleep Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you... Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeing horseman in the field of battle.” PeopleLittlesWisdomFightingSpeakSleepWalksPathFourFieldsBattleEgoTrainingPatientHarmObedienceIslamicBe PatientFleeingHorsemenNafs Author:Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
“If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of unity and plenitude. As every experience emanates from the non-experience which is our real being, the me also bears the scent of its source. This remembering is awakened through those moments of desirelessness and in deep sleep.” IfsWayRealMomentsRememberSleepSourceBearsEgoUnityScentRemembranceAwakenedEmanateDeep SleepPlenitude Book:I Am Source: I Am
“In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four persons are there overcrowding it. The wife is there and the ego, and the husband is there and the ego - husband is hidden behind his ego, wife is hidden behind her ego, and those two egos go on making love. The real contact never happens.” PersonsTwoRealHappensTogetherSleepBehindsFourWifeRelationshipGoes OnBedHusbandEgoContactMaking LoveOvercrowdingSleeping Together Author:Rajneesh
“Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.” PeopleInspirationalMayGodDesireNaturalSleepSimpleMoneyEgoGoodnessGod LoveDawnFormulasSubmissionNatural LoveSimple Love Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.” IfsMayHelpingNightSleepEgoWake UpLuckGuidanceRelySpiritual Growth Author:Rumi
“Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.” GivingLittlesOrderStrongSleepEgoPausesStay StrongLittle Time Author:Byron Katie