"Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience."

-- Pema Chodron

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“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
“I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.”
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

Source : Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”
“There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.”
“I will do whatever I can to help my country until my death. At the Senate I try to devise laws that fit in with the way people live, and I give my opinion. And I will always do this, even if I leave the Senate. I will always try and be useful.”
“Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.”
“and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.”
“Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.”

Source : Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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