The adamantine wall that shuts us in is egoism;
we refer everything to ourselves, thinking, "I do this, that, and the other."
Get rid of this puny "I"; kill this diabolism in us;
"Not I, but Thou"-- say it, feel it, live it.
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will. To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all -- living in the body, but not of it.
This rascal ego must be obliterated. Bless men when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing you; they can only hurt themselves. Go where people hate you, let them thrash the ego out of you, and you will get nearer to the Lord.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Inspired Talks
we refer everything to ourselves, thinking, "I do this, that, and the other."
Get rid of this puny "I"; kill this diabolism in us;
"Not I, but Thou"-- say it, feel it, live it.
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will. To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all -- living in the body, but not of it.
This rascal ego must be obliterated. Bless men when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing you; they can only hurt themselves. Go where people hate you, let them thrash the ego out of you, and you will get nearer to the Lord.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Inspired Talks
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