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Mon 6 Mar 2023

Center

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, soul, the center, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.”

―Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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Tue 8 Nov 2022

Light

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, ego, light, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We too often coerce [dreams] with interpretation, drag them into too harsh a light, and harness them to the ego in order to strengthen its perspective. No wonder we forget dreams—they resist recollection because they do not wish to be pressed into the ego’s service, to be literalized and, alas, demonized.

—Patrick Harper, Daimonic Reality

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Fri 29 Jul 2022

Self-importance

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The biggest barrier to writing well and doing anything well is self-importance; it’s blinding. Self-importance blinds people to life.”

—Jim Harrison, interview, Grand Rapids Magazine, May 1998

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Mon 28 Jun 2021

Source

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, sin, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“The sin of the ego is to wish to sever itself from its own source; its tragedy is that it sometimes succeeds.”

—Patrick Harpur, The Philosophers’ Secret Fire

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Tue 4 May 2021

Renounce

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838”

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Mon 19 Oct 2020

Need

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, wanting
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Random quote of the day:

“The ego has convinced us that we need it—not only that we need it, but that we are it.”

—Ram Dass, “Navigating the Matrix of the Ego,” Ramdass.org

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Tue 28 Apr 2020

Egoist

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, selfish, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and be filled with eagerness to live.”

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, 1887 (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Fri 24 May 2019

Much ado

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”

—Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams

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Tue 16 Apr 2019

Flying monkey

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: fascinated by the realm of the senses it swings from one desire to the next.”

—Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching, Verse 10 (tr. Brian Walker)

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Thu 10 Jan 2019

Distant star

Posted by PJ under cosmos, ego, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”

—G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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