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"The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo ' even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future."
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"My ego is the wall between you and me."
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"I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point."
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"God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it."
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"The ego of the mind can entrap you in a web of dilution."
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"There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good."
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"Men are so conceited they'll believe anything that flatters them."
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"If I can't quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that's killing itself in the very act of feeding itself."
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"If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!"
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"To say that, "I will not agree (will not accept) is great egoism!"
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"Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer from life only when we fail to examine the cause of our sorrow. Letting go of destructive illusions and freeing oneself from egotism of self-pity enables a person to sense the rich intertexture of their inner world, which is the only facet of reality that we exercise exclusive dominion and control."
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"Life is all about practicing for heaven.' p 101."
Philosophy
"A mystic doesn't say 'I believe. They say 'I know. A true mystic will ironically speak with that self - confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self - confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general."
Faith
"Seventy times seven' is a medicine for a healing community, not for a community with all the answers beforehand and all the appropriate punishments afterwards."
Faith
"People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place."
Creativity
"This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of 'memory, ' not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing."
Memory
"Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you."
Relationship
"If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God."
Evolution
"If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost."
Spiritual
"Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel."
Theology
"Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh."
Humor
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