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"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."
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Personal Development
"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."
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Personal Development
"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."
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Personal Development
"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."
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Personal Development
"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."
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Personal Development
"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
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Personal Development
"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."
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Personal Development
"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."
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Personal Development
"God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it."
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Personal Development
"The ego survives only in conflict. Peace is the death of the ego."
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"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."
Emotion
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
Kids
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Imagination
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
Music
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
Reading
"Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name's the motherof the ten thousand things."
Spiritual
"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
Love
"Judgement is poverty."
Ethics
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
Life
"The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do."
Power
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