Quotes about mine (15 Quotes)




    They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of 'I', 'me', and 'mine' to be united with the Lord. This is the supreme state. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality.

    The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.

    (Opponents) did lob it over them. They moved automatically. They would switch to take the short path. If it's close to both of them, they call 'mine, mine, mine.' They did that throughout the whole day.



    He dedicates his mind and body to serving the Lord. How can we please the Lord I fall at His Feet, and I renounce all sense of 'mine and yours'. Who can settle this bargain.

    I always remember the old song, 'Wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine,' ... You're going to grow up. You're going to get married. You're going to get girlfriends and have babies and things, and you don't do that in a band.


    We don't want people to say, 'Oh, 13,000 resumes, why should I submit mine' We need that to continue. Even if it's in an area where you maybe don't exactly have all the qualifications, if you think you're close, absolutely submit it because we certainly welcome all resumes right now.


    Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions 'I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement.' 'I wonder if they are lost and alone' 'I wonder if they will ever have a body' 'I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine' Alas, brothers and sisters, 'wickedness never was happiness' (Alma 4110).


    Part of me wanted to say, 'It wasn't yours, it was mine.' But it's part of that iconic relationship. I was afraid I was going to lose my mind, like Virginia Woolf. The heart can break -- it's quite a resilient muscle -- but I don't know about the mind. It seems to be a creature of another sort.

    So ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence. Ego is then defined as incessant movements of grasping at a delusory notion of 'I' and 'mine,' self and other, and all the concepts, ideas, desires, and activity that will sustain that false construction. The fact that we need to grasp at all and go on and on grasping shows that in the depths of our being we know that the self does not inherently exist. The ego's greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very survival with its own. This is a savage irony, considering that ego and its grasping are at the root of all our suffering. Yet ego is so convincing, and we have been its dupe for so long, that the thought that we might ever become egoless terrifies us.



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