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One
may understand the cosmos,
but never the ego; the self is
more distant than any star.
G.K.
Chesterton
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The
foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion,
and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out
the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
The
Dalai Lama
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The ego, as a collection of our past experiences,
is continually
offering miserable lines of thought.
It’s as if there were a stream
with little fish swimming
by, and when we hook one of them
there is a judgment.
The ego is constantly judging everybody
and everything.
It has its constant little chit chat about things
that can
happen in the future, things about the past, too, and
these are
the little fish that swim by.
And what we learn to
do—this is why it takes work—is to
not reach out and grab a fish.
Hugh Prather
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If
you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego
and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the
need
to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge.
Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time.
It's very
important to be aware of them every time they come up.
Deepak
Chopra
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I measure what's going on,
and I adapt to it. I try to get
my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I
bend.
Martin Zweig
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The
main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of
the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's
constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental
version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort,
or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One
must
step out of spiritual materialism.
Trungpa Chogyam
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Ego could
be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an
experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's
covering up
our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are,
so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience.
Egolessness
is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness
of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional
joy
that includes all the different qualities of our experience.
Pema
Chodron
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The ego is the single
biggest obstruction to the achievement of anything. Between-ness
is the act of acting without ego. You act, but you are not the
actor.
You do things, but you are not the doer--and you know you are not
the doer.
It's the ability to hold the head at a dead standstill in order to
effect certain changes.
You desire the change, but you do not care if it comes to pass.
Richard Rose
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The
ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot
use
effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead
of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the
Divine,
and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying
to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego
itself.
Ken Wilber
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Avoid
having your ego so close to your position that
when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Colin
Powell
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The ego is that ugly little troll that lives
underneath the bridge
between your mind and your heart.
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