Frederick Lenz Quotes About Ego
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The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.
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Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.
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The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
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When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.
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The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.
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Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.
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There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.
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Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.
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There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.
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What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.
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In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.
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Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.
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You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.
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Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
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You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.
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The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.
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Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.
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"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.
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When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.
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When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.
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In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.
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You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.
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The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.
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Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
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Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
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Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.
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Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.
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For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.
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There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long
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If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.
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