"The ego is the ideal fuel that is exciting to burn, the best fuel that could be found in the whole universe, . . . the only fuel for wisdom . . . In fact, the very idea of enlightenment exists because of ego - because there is a contrast. Without ego there wouldn't be the very notion of enlightenment at all. You don't get rid of your ego at all. Without ego you cannot attain enlightenment, so you have to make friends with ego. You don't want to get rid of ego. That's the whole point. You don't try to get rid of ego at all - but you don't try to maintain ego either."
Chogyam Trungpa,
Tibetan rinpoche
Photo: A Pasqueflower glows next to a burnt, sap-exuding Ponderosa pine trunk; Hewlett Burn, Roosevelt National Forest, CO; April 3, 2014
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