One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.