' Controling the ego '...

When the consciousness of true and real primary being is finally discovered, thought out, and felt as himself, the secondary being need not be disowned, denied existence and suppressed, as so often taught. But because of its tyranny, its usurpation certainly must be stopped and its proper secondary place imposed upon it; and because of its ignorance a re-education into mentalism must also be imposed upon it.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 178


Every individual life from the mighty elephant down to the microscopic cell is a self-evolving entity moving through time and space. It has meaning, a purpose, and eventually, a fulfillment here. Why then talk of destroying the one with which you are most intimate--your own ego?

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 181


At every point of his progress the ego still functions--except in deep, thought-free contemplation, when it is suppressed--but it becomes by well-defined stages a better and finer character, more and more in harmony with the Overself. But total relinquishment of the ego can happen only with total relinquishment of the body, that is, at death.
-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1: What Am I? > # 188


- By Paul Brunton