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“The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.”
Marcel Proust
“That scholar who is full of greed, arrogant pride and egotism, is known to be a fool. So read the Name, and realize the Name, and contemplate the Guru's Teachings.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Forever and ever, You are the only One; You set the play of duality in motion. You created egotism and arrogant pride, and You placed greed within our beings. Keep me as it pleases Your Will; everyone acts as You cause them to act.”
“Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.”
Guru Gobind Singh
“People are incarnated in heaven and in hell. In egotism, they come and go.”
“The world is polluted with the filth of egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality. This filth of egotism cannot be washed away, even by taking cleansing baths at hundreds of sacred shrines.”
“In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.”
“Lord burdened one with egotism. He alone is born and dies; He alone comes and goes”
“Those who practice severe austerities without following the scriptures, with hypocrisy and egotism, impelled by lust, and attachment; / Senselessly torturing the elements in their body and also Me who dwell within the body; know these ignorant persons to be of demonic nature.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Burnt by egotism, one forgets the Lord from his mind”
