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Get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding, you will be yourself. Relaxed. When your illusions crumble, you will look out at the world and say, “My, how different everything looks.”
A Year With Anthony De Mello
Anthony De Mello
The Ego is a mental entity, a crude and ruthless ghost masquerading as our “self.” It is a mental construct, produced by socialization, which rewards and punishes us with feelings of self-worth. The Ego lives by comparison. It identifies with events in our past—our personal history—and then compares our history to the histories of others. This comparison leaves us feeling better than or worse than, but not equal to, others.
The Rock Warrior's Way
Arno Ilgner
The environmentalist and spiritual writer Charles Eisenstein recalls first sensing this basic “wrongness” in our use of time as a child, growing up amid material comfort in 1970s America: Life, I knew, was supposed to be more joyful than this, more real, more meaningful, and the world was supposed to be more beautiful. We were not supposed to hate Mondays and live for the weekends and holidays. We were not supposed to have to raise our hands to be allowed to pee. We were not supposed to be kept indoors on a beautiful day, day after day.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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