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We are all self-absorbed, locked in our own worlds. It is a therapeutic and liberating experience to be drawn outside ourselves and into the world of another.
Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. — ALAN WATTS
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
We have to learn to disengage from the world, for without disengagement we can’t journey from ego to spirit because we are locked into the common emotion. I’ll talk more about how to escape from that later on. The point is, are you going to see the world from the insecurity,
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
― Albert Camus
The ego loves to take sides; it gives us a false sense of solidity, importance, and intelligence. Contemplation is any way we can find to help us penetrate illusion and touch reality—and reality will always be bigger than us. It will always leave us a bit uncomfortable, a bit off center stage. If we’re still on center stage, it isn’t Reality.
The Purpose of Contemplation
Mostly things are not that way, that simple and pure, with so much focus given to each syllable of life as life sings itself. But that kind of attention is the prize. To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass—seeing things in such a narrow and
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