Ego Archives - Spiritual Quotes https://spiritual-quotes.org/tag/ego/ Quotes for Any Occasion Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:15:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 In truth there’s only deathlessness. https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/truth-theres-deathlessness/ Sat, 03 May 2014 11:27:00 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=967 The whole created universe is made of living energy that moves and oscillates and shines. This boundless store of restless cosmic energy has terrible destructive power. It’s like an upraised thunderbolt: to petty ego’s fragile life, identified with little body, sense and mind. But if, transcending petty ego, all the world is known as life – as only living energy – then how can […]

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]]> The whole created universe is made of living energy that moves and oscillates and shines. This boundless store of restless cosmic energy has terrible destructive power. It’s like an upraised thunderbolt: to petty ego’s fragile life, identified with little body, sense and mind.

But if, transcending petty ego, all the world is known as life – as only living energy – then how can death arise at all? For one who knows the world like this, as only life, there is no death. In truth, there’s only deathlessness.

– From the Upanishads

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]]> The I is as real as… https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/real/ Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:48:00 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=805 The “I” in “I think” and “I do” is as real as the “it” in “it rains” and “it is cold.” – Leo Hartong

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]]> The “I” in “I think” and “I do” is as real as the “it” in “it rains” and “it is cold.”

– Leo Hartong

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]]> Our unchanging centre https://spiritual-quotes.org/enlightenment/unchanging-centre/ https://spiritual-quotes.org/enlightenment/unchanging-centre/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:33:08 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=803 We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being […]

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]]> We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean.

– Jean Klein

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]]> https://spiritual-quotes.org/enlightenment/unchanging-centre/feed/ 1 In God there is no duality https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/god-duality/ Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:49:27 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=685 In God there is no duality. In that Presence “I” and “we” and “you” do not exist. “I” and “you” and “we” and “He” become one…. Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one. – Mahmud Shabistari

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]]> In God there is no duality. In that Presence “I” and “we” and “you” do not exist. “I” and “you” and “we” and “He” become one…. Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

– Mahmud Shabistari

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]]> Learn to lose yourself https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/learn-lose/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:04:08 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=592 Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the Beloved. There is no other secret to be learned, and more than that is not known to me. – Al-Ansari

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]]> Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the Beloved.
There is no other secret to be learned, and more than that is not known to me.

– Al-Ansari

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]]> Two kinds of people https://spiritual-quotes.org/wise-words/two-kinds-people/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:55:04 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=589 There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t. – Robert Benchley

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]]> There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t.

– Robert Benchley

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]]> A little man within https://spiritual-quotes.org/happiness/a-little-man-within/ Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:30:58 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=483 What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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]]> What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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]]> It does not exist https://spiritual-quotes.org/enlightenment/it-does-not-exist/ Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:36:18 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=434 As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did – except in my own imagination. – Thomas Merton

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]]> As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did – except in my own imagination.

– Thomas Merton

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]]> Carried by the wind https://spiritual-quotes.org/wise-words/carried-by-the-wind/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:31:38 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=379 The post Carried by the wind appeared first on Spiritual Quotes.

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]]> I am the supreme reality https://spiritual-quotes.org/enlightenment/i-am-the-supreme-reality/ Thu, 02 May 2013 13:29:07 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=244 Kill me, O my trustworthy friends, for in my being killed is my life. Love is that you remain standing in front of your Beloved. When you are deprived of all your attributes, then His attributes become your qualities. Between me and You, there’s only me. Take away the me, so only You remain. I […]

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]]> Kill me, O my trustworthy friends, for in my being killed is my life.

Love is that you remain standing in front of your Beloved.
When you are deprived of all your attributes,
then His attributes become your qualities.

Between me and You, there’s only me.
Take away the me, so only You remain.

I am the Supreme Reality.

– Al-Hallaj

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