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The desire to continue life in the ego contains all possible desires. This explains why the hardest of all renunciations for which a man can be asked is that of his ego. He is willing even to suffer mortifications of the flesh or humiliations of his pride rather than that last and worst crucifixion.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 4 : Detaching from The Ego (Part I) > # 228 -- Perspectives > Chapter 8: The Ego > # 55