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“For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.”

People Needs War States Interest Share Ego Going To War Personal Interest

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Saying “I'll try” means our soul isn't really in it. We tell ourselves “I'll try” when our inflated egos won't come clean and admit that we're actually not all that determined. We can't overcome obstacles with the words “I'll try.” As Yoda, the philosopher in the Star Wars movies, says, “Do, or do not. There is no 'try.”

Trying Mean War Soul Stars Ego Overcoming Clean Philosopher Obstacles Determined War Movie Star Wars Movie Try Me Inflated Ego

Book:Choose to Lose: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Solution

Source: Choose to Lose: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Solution

“Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.”

Thinking Has Beens War Facts Spiritual Pay Attention Enemy Ego Concepts Negative Who You Are Disaster Boundaries Arise Conclusion Destroyed Seekers War With Yourself

Author:Adyashanti

“Violence generates more violence; hatred produces more hatred. Peace cannot be conquered. Peace cannot be the result of violence. Peace comes to us only when we dissolve the Ego, when we destroy within us all those psychological factors that produce war.”

War Results Violence Produce Ego Hatred Psychological Factors

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.”

Men World Writing Years Book War Mother Found Study Violence Written He Man Ego Creating Notes Greed Feminist Tension Pakistan Cleaning Trunks Cleaning Up Lahore

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”

Want Life War Life Is Courage Ego Compromise Nerves

Author:Walter Bagehot

“When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.”

War Reality Century Ego Unjust Justified Prostitution Piracy Unjust War

Author:T. S. Eliot

“If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens War Self Spiritual Dies Position Broken Ego Threatened Sense Of Self Annihilation Broken Down

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”

“I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game.”

People Want War Enough Together Lasts Girl Games Pay Attention Heard Cry Months Ego Pay Attention Scream

Book:The electric kool-aid acid test

Source: The electric kool-aid acid test

“But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.”

Want Persons War Nations Plans Groups Self Esteem Becoming Ego Office Esteem

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness

“The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.”

War Cry Source Ego Patriotism Sole Fountain Trails

Book:The Complete Works of George Meredith

Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith