Zack Snyder Quotes

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

Quit Babylon for love of the Babylonians.And do not seek ease or security you can obtain by using Babylon. What will it avail you to cease living in Babylon if you do not also cease living on Babylon?

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.