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does make oneself ill. It is the narrowness of consciousness, the
division. If you let it work, there is... everywhere there is a Con-
sciousness and a Grace that do everything so that all may go
well, and it is because of this imbecility that all goes wrong — it
is strange! The ego-centric imbecility. ...
CWM 11: 207

... the ego disappears, and the ego disappears only when you
are ready to abandon yourself completely to the supreme Lord
without any personal motive and without any expectation of
profit — when you do it because you cannot do otherwise.
CWM 10:16

There may be an effort which is not at all selfish and is yet
egoistic, because the moment it becomes personal it is egoistic
— that means, it is based on the ego. But this does not mean
that it is not generous, compassionate, unselfish nor that it is for
narrow personal ends. It is not like that. It may be for a very
unselfish work. But so long as an ego is there it is egoistic. And so
long as the sense of one’s own personality is there, it is naturally
something egoistic; it is founded on the presence of the ego.
16: 377

To become conscious of your psychic being and to live a psy-
chic life you must abolish all egoism; but to live a spiritual life
you must no longer have an ego.
12: 35-36

Karma is a construction of the ego; the ego must do something,
everything cannot be done for it. The truth is this: Karma
is the result of the actions of the ego, and it is only when the ego
abdicates that Karma is dissolved.
16: 373 The Mother

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