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“You have to stay out of the game. It’s deadly and no one ever wins. Everyone is a loser. Even seeming wins are short-lived and have the taste of bitterness mixed in with the satisfaction of personal gain. The ego is exclusive by nature. While the spirit seeks to include, the ego is unashamedly manipulative in its culling of people. The intention of self-aggrandisement is barely even covered over. The soul does not see people in terms of what it can gain. It seeks to share. It seeks to create by extension of its own and others’ true nature. The ego is extremely changeable. It has no stability. Constantly guarding against attack and looking out for its own advantage, its perceptions and thus feelings towards others are ever-shifting. This creates unhappiness. The more we veer away from our true nature, the more unhappy we feel. When we align with our better self, we feel happy again. And so the process continues until the spaces between happiness are not as long and arduous. The presence or absence of personal peace is our barometer. It will guide us even if we are not sure of the way.”

Happiness Spirit Winning Humility Pride Ego Losing Spiritual Path Self Aggrandizement Ego S Games

Book:Circles of Separation

Source: Circles of Separation

“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores.”

Humor Narcissism Self Knowledge Snobbery Genealogy Snobs Snobbishness Self Aggrandizement

Book:To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Source: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

“Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.”

Fake Pretentious Phony Self Aggrandizement

Book:The Day of the Locust

Source: The Day of the Locust

“Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.”

Connection Manipulation Act Performance Search Self Protection Self Aggrandizement

Book:How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

Source: How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice

“By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.”

Ego Trauma Boundaries Vanity Narcissism Grandiosity Self Aggrandizement

Book:Make Self-Knowledge Great Again

Source: Make Self-Knowledge Great Again

“Self-aggrandizement and lust for power, the maelstrom of baser instincts - disfigured people.”

Lust For Power Self Aggrandizement

Author:sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Find your own truths as best you can, only remember that few are courageous enough to tell a tale of which they are not the hero.”

Truth Hero Bias Self Aggrandizement

Book:Mermaid's Song

Source: Mermaid's Song

“Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.”

Hills Mountains Exaggeration Self Aggrandizement

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“In solitude and when fatigued, one is after all inclined to take oneself for a prophet.”

Prophet Existentialism Self Aggrandizement

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“Many of the disasters that will befall this clan will be due to the pernicious habit of imbuing one's own little existence with an exaggerated importance.”

Self Aggrandizement

Book:Autumn Bridge

Source: Autumn Bridge