When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.
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.
The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
I find myself only by losing myself.
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.
The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?
Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.
The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
When the ego dies, the soul awakes.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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.
There was no himself in himself.
Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.
