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"Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable One, I'm afraid it might befall me that my ego would be pacified and liberated only seemingly, only illusorily, that in reality it would survive and grow great, for then I would make the teaching, my discipleship, my love for you, and the community of the monks into my ego!"
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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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"You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too lazy to learn to love. As for ideal and tragic love, that I don't doubt you can do marvellously- and all honour to you. Now you will learn to love a little in an ordinary human way."
Love
"I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness, but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference that was only pierced when creative desire enveloped me like ether."
Youth
"And those of us who trust ourselves the least,Who doubt and question most, these, it may be,Will make their mark upon eternity,And youth will turn to them as to a feast.The time may come when a man who confessedHis self-doubts will be ranked among the blessedWho never suffered anguish or knew fear,Whose times were times of glory and good cheer,Who lived like children, simple happy lives.For in us too is part of that Eternal MindWhich through the aeons calls to brothers of its kind:Both you and I will pass, but it survives."
Impact
"Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child."
Skepticism
"This change did not bring me into the community of the others, did not make me closer to anyone, but actually made me even lonelier. My reformation seemed to point in the direction ofDemian, but even this was a distant fate. I did not know myself, for I was too deeply involved. It had begunwith Beatrice, but for some time I had been living in such an unreal world with my paintings and my thoughtsof Demian that I'd forgotten all about her, too. I could not have uttered a single word about my dreams andexpectations, my inner change, to anyone, not even if I had wanted to. But how could I have wanted to?"
Transition
"I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood."
Oneness
"The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike."
Simplicity
"We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps."
Evolution
"Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it."
Path
"Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived."
Reflection
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