{"quotes":[{"text":"What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["ego","egoism","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":826,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","ego","egoism","soul","spiritual","spiritual-science","who-am-i"],"id":2945,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["egoism","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":3166,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; ‘I did’, ‘I suffered this pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["action","atma","doership","egoism","enjoy","freedom","happiness","living","pain","pride","soul","spiritual","spiritual","suffer","suffering"],"id":5693,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["egoism","suffering"],"id":6743,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["bitterness","egoism","spiritual","spiritual","sweetness"],"id":7076,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"I know’, is a big ghost. ‘This is mine’, is a huge demonic possession!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["ego","egoism","know","mine","spiritual","spiritual","yours"],"id":9617,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.","author":"Hamza Yusuf","tags":["ego","egoism","intelligence","weak","wisdom","wise"],"id":10715,"author_id":"Hamza+Yusuf"},{"text":"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad","ego","egoism","egoist","egotism","egotist","enemy","envious","envy","fight","fighting","fool","fools","friends","friendships","gift","happiness","happy","hate","hater","hatred","jealous","jealousy","michael-bassey-johnson","money","negative","negative-people","pangs","people","poison","problem","prying","regret","regrets","relate","relationships","reveal","show","surprises","trouble","villian","witchcraft"],"id":13268,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Our ego occupies so much space, there is little room for anything else.","author":"Nilesh Rathod","tags":["ego","egoism","egoist"],"id":28401,"author_id":"Nilesh+Rathod"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":142,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}