"Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its……" — Paul Brunton
"Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image."
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44 Quotes by Paul Brunton
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You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
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No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be…
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The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But…
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Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the…
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God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from…
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Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It…
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The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will…
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Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and…
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Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon…
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Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural.…
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The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself…
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When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and…
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More Ego Quotes
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
— Karen Armstrong
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom…
— Roseanne Barr
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
— David Beckham
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
— Arnold Bennett
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But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too…
— Anna Benson
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are…
— Jello Biafra
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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