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"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong."
"When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion."
"To change from inauspicious [bad] to auspicious [good] can be done, through egoism. But egoism is not required to come to pure-state from auspicious-state. From there, one will not be able to know where to find the staircase to climb up the steps! That's why, all this has stopped from going further."
"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."
"It is quite awful how some people are constantly saying that they are superior to others, but deep down they know that they are suffering from a lot of insecurities."
"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."
"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."
"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"
Explore more quotes by John Cheever
"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power."
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
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