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"What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher."

"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong."

"If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!"

"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."

"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."

"Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable."

"Tremendous my-ness' [mamta] is bound in the presence of Soul [Atma], and it is also in the presence of Soul that this my-ness is tremendously dissipated."
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"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.'True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."

"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."

"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."
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