Ego and Humility

• Truth is our common denominator essential for us to have peace. Fight your ego and biases for truth's sake - Peace unto you!

• The "true greatness" in a soul will seek greatness in the amount of beneficial contribution it gives to the whole. Whereas, a great ego will seek "great recognition" for what it claims to do.

• Caution: Just because people exude confidence doesn't mean that they know what they are doing, are right or should be followed.

• Are you full of class, or is it just flash? Do you realize that these two more often than not will clash?

• Take every opportunity to make peace, without betraying too much principle.

• The ego - expansive littleness!

• Natural grace increases as one's ego-self decreases.

• Don't be so busy in your own beliefs that you can't hear the truth.

• One can get lost in the smallness of his/her huge ego.

• If you're acclaimed as "the best" then you'll be hunted by those seeking to take that away from you. Such is their ego, and a good place for your humbleness.

• If you need to be humbled and your time is overdue, then life will punch you over and over till you're humbled through and through.

• If you're not humble, sooner or later you will need to be. As you then stay humble, you eventually become empowered. As you continue to be both humble and empowered - you become more enlightened even yet.

• Humbleness may be done with the spine straight and walk upright.

• Get over yourself and get on with your life

• Humbleness is an essential ingredient of wholeness that sometimes requires those stubbornly stuck to hit rock bottom to attain.

• One having great fame, extraordinary spiritual powers or experiences does in no way imply that he is egoless or should be listened to or followed.

• The common untrained ego has a disproportionate amount more: hurt feelings; immature emotions; strong and personal reactions; confusion; anger; moods; misunderstandings; judgments etc. than the ego that has been trained and transformed into the world of wholeness, enlightenment and spiritual obedience.

• One can become so determined to destroy another that one becomes blind with fixation and ends up destroying oneself.

• We have a choice of which team that we're on: with our little ego self, or the universal all-providing flow - the creator and sustainer of the whole.

• Socially we can become so popular and cool that we become hurtful and cold.

• Feeling disempowered or sorry for yourself can take you spiraling downward and even drive you to drink! Poor me - poor me - pour me another.

• How can those who treat others lower consider themselves higher - ignorant arrogance?

• Peace doesn't come through the ego generally. The ego separates.

• People exaggerate things because they crave more power, attention, and/or significance.

• Fatal attractions: perfectionism; always getting extra attention; talent; beauty; fame; bliss; being a spectator; good sex; ambitions; power; wealth; etc., can be temporarily fatal to your development, character and/or well-being if you become obsessed with any of them.

• Temper; stubbornness; righteousness and condemnation don't solve anything, especially if they override a continual sincere pursuit to negotiate, grow and find better solutions for all involved. With mutual respect for everybody and utmost regard for truth and right action, good solutions can always be found.

• Some people just talk at each other, while others really care, listen, communicate, relate, enhance and add meaning.

• There are hordes of affluent, permissive, trendy, "spiritual", or new age people who don't know the difference between self-transcendence and self indulgence.

• As you judge and blame others - you are also somehow imprisoned in your own issues, judgment and blame - still in the jungle - unforgiving and impure.

• Being famous and being a real hero are two entirely different qualities of character.

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