Tricycle Daily Dharma January 23, 2014
Hang On to Your Ego
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person devoid of ego functions would be self-destructive: either a
beast with uncontrolled impulses, or a neurotic, repressed automaton
with no mind of her own, or an infantile monster thrashing erratically
between these two extremes. Anyone who tried to abandon ego functioning
would arrest his psychological growth and lose all hope of becoming a
mature, responsible, trustworthy adult. And as we know, self-destructive
people don’t destroy only themselves. They can pull down many of the
people and places around them.
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- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Hang On to Your Ego”
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