“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”
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Richard Rohr
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
3 quotes“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
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C.S. Lewis
3 quotes“When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”
Arthur Miller
3 quotes“The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.”
Marcus Aurelius
3 quotes“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
Gilbert Chesterton
2 quotes“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”
Flannery O'Connor
2 quotes“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”