Can you turn over a new leaf, go on a diet, learn a new language, and get up every morning at dawn to meditate and clean your house? The idea of ego depletion says, “no.” And it has physical evidence to back that up.
“A boy said to a man "I want happiness." The man said "Remove 'I' - that is your ego. Remove 'want' - that is your desire. And what remains is your happiness." ”
“The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”
“I would say that most of us stay locked in our separateness and we are very frightened of coming out of it, we feel very vulnerable. In truth you’re not vulnerable at all. Who you think you are is vulnerable. Who you are is not vulnerable. This is the truth of it. ”
“Egal, eh nicht so wichtig.
Scheißegal du bist eh nicht so richtig bei mir.
Lass uns sagen es ist eh nichts passiert,
Lieber Ego polieren als ewig frustriert.
Ein müdes Lächeln nur das Mittel zum Zweck.
Lügen haben lange Beine,
sie gehen schneller Weg.
Häng mich in Phrasen auf und trittst du gegen den Stuhl,
wär ich cool damit.
Wär auch cooler für dich...
Geht nicht, auf halbem Weg gescheitert,
du bist immer noch bei mir,
geh nicht, geht weiter.”
“Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak. Perhaps to know too much makes it difficult to speak; the mind knows so little, it is possible for it to speak.
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“Humor allows us to see that ultimately things don’t make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they’re real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma’s cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It’s your choice.”
