...One of the greatest problems...it will appear very paradoxical, but this is true: before you can lose your ego, you must attain it. Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground...

http://oz.sannyas.net/quotes/19740517.htm

http://surprise.editthispage.com/2002/07/04

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That stingy, vigilant security guard admits only the narrowest bandwidth of reality… It’s really good at performing all those activities that natural selection values: getting ahead, getting liked and loved, getting fed, getting laid. Keeping us on task, it is a ferocious editor of anything that might distract us from the work at hand, whether that means regulating our access to memories and strong emotions from within or news of the world without.

via stewartbutterfield at https://twitter.com/SimoneStolzoff/status/1018870618744348672

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At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry.