“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Source: On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
“The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared.”
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Five, p. 158
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Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind. The whole of our science is based upon empirical, repeatable experiments. Whereas thought is not in that category, you can’t take thought into a laboratory. The essential fact of our existence, perhaps the only fact of our existence – our own thought and perception is ruled off-side by the science it has invented. Science looks at the universe, doesn’t see itself there, doesn’t see mind there, so you have a world in which mind has no place. We are still no nearer to coming to terms with the actual dynamics of what consciousness is.
Matthew Barney (1967) American artist
art:21 interview: "CREMASTER 3—on location at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY" http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/barney/clip1.html
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 77)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1920s, The Ego and the Id (1923)
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 169
Context: This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
TedxPasadena speech (2018)
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
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Context: Control of the mind can be achieved by understanding yourself, the aim and the energy which is blocking us from progressing. Between God and the Self, the blocking energy is the ego. If the ego is pulled toward the world, it makes a wall. If the same ego is pulled toward God, it makes a ladder.