Ram Dass Quotes About Ego
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The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.
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One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.
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I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
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The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!
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We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
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A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.
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The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.
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Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.
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As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.
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As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.
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Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.
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The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.
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Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
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When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul
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Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.
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At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.
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Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.
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These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego.
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The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.
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The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.
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Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.
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Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
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