Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
'Our thing' is turning into 'my thing' within the Mafia, just as the larger American society is facing the new realities of the 'me generation.'
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive.
I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.
It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.
Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.
Wrong is for other people.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
I remember 'the me generation,' which people thought was sort of a passing phase. But it seems to become a way of life now, and when me is at the center of everything, I don't think that you need to go out of yourself and ask God to save your soul or anything along those lines.
Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
