 47. Ego-I |
Do we know what we mean by the egoic self, or psychological self? By that, I mean the idea, the memory, the conclusion, the experience, the various forms of nameable and unnameable intentions. The conscious endeavor to be or not to be, the accumulated memory of the unconsciousness, the racial, the group, the individual, the clan and the whole of it all; whether it is projected spiritually as virtue; the striving after all this is the psychological ego. In it is included the competition, the desire to be. The whole process of that is the self or psychological ego; and we know actually when we are faced with it that it is an "evil" thing. I am using the word "evil" intentionally, because the egoic self or psychological ego is dividing; the psychological egoic self is self enclosing: it's activities, however noble, are separative and isolating.
-J. Krishnamurti
Nothing truly but thine own willing, hearing and seeing. Do keep thee back from it. And do hinder thee from coming to this supersensual state. And it is because thou strivest so against that, out of which thou thyself are descended and derived that thou thus breakest thyself off. With thine own willing, from God's willing. And with thy own seeing from God's seeing.
-Boehme
The more the soul cleaves to created things relying on it's own strength by habit and inclination, the less it disposed for this union. Because it does not completely resign itself into the hands of God, that "He" may transform it supernaturally.
-St. John of the Cross
Make my heart pure, my soul from error free. Make tears and sighs my daily lot to be. And lead me on thy road away from self that lost to self I may approach to thee.
-Whinfield's E.T.
What you gain for your psychological self (ego), you lose for your soul.
-Hua Ching Ni
He who finds his life (created by the psychological ego) will lose it (i.e., lose their spiritual life), and he who loses his life (the false psychological ego) for my "name sake" (attains Christhood) will find it.
-Jesus, Matthew 10:39
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
-Jesus, John 3:3
That which is born of the flesh (the psychological ego) is flesh, and that which is born (born again) of the spirit is spirit. (Spirit which is consciousness prior to thought and inner witness to thought).
-Jesus, John 3:6
The Greek version of the psychological ego, or separated mentality is: "narcissus."
In the book of the Koran (Islam) a person who has separated their consciousness from the universal consciousness and created their own separate psychological ego is called an "infidel."
The psychological ego is called by many names; Narcissus, the separate one, fallen angel, devil, anti-Christ, false personality, infidel, Demiurge, Gog and Magog.
