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Building a Better Self?

By Mark Epstein — 2018

It sounds like a good thing to do, but psychiatrist and Buddhist teacher Mark Epstein says you should resist ego’s endless demands for self-improvement.

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Unselfing into Oneness with the All: Transcendentalist Queen Margaret Fuller on Transcendence

“How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? What does it mean? What shall I do about it?”

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Maria Popova
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How Your Mind Works

What is this thing we call “self”? We assemble it ourselves, according to Buddhist psychology. Gaylon Ferguson breaks down the five-step process of ego development.

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Gaylon Ferguson
2020
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Signs of an Ego Battleship Instead of a Relationship

A real relationship is steeped in an inner knowing of ones’ inherent value. It blooms from well-loved and maintained foundation of self-knowledge, self-respect and clear values.

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Eve Hogan
2014
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Integration: Psychedelics, Spirituality and the Ego

Integration has become a buzzword in the world of psychedelics, but there are still questions being asked about what it means to be integrated, who can do it, and how it can be done.

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Sharon Rafferty
2019
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Overcoming Ego with the Practice of Chöd

Lama Tsultrim Allione looks at how the traditional Buddhist practice of chöd—offerings one’s own body to frightening demons—can inspire us to let go of ego and practice joyful generosity.

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Lama Tsultrim Allione
2017
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I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another

“The primary word I–Thou can only be spoken with the whole being. The primary word I–It can never be spoken with the whole being.”

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Maria Popova
2018
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