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Some Thoughts and Aphorisms

Self-justification is always a sign of ego and ignorance.

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Most sensitiveness is the result or sign of ego.

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Yes, ego is the reason of the difficulty in everybody.

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Ambition is always a force of the vital.

CWSA 31: 348, 211, 218, 239

Samata does not mean the absence of ego, but the ab-
sence of desire and attachment.
CWSA 29:133

Impersonality in itself is not the Divine.

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Even humility and what is called altruism is with most
people only a form of ego.
CWSA 31: 220, 217

The sense of sin was necessary in order that man might
become disgusted with his own imperfections. It was
God's corrective for egoism. But man's egoism meets
God's device by being very dully alive to its own sins and
very keenly alive to the sins of others.

CWSA 12: 430-31 Sri Aurobindo

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