Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ego dictates all autobiographies, the good and the bad; the truly modest man keeps silent, letting his life speak for itself. The literary world can be grateful that Novelist Vladimir Nabokov is not all that modest a man. He is, in fact, a compulsive autobiographer. For the past 30 years he has been disbursing fragments of this book to an international assortment of periodicals, obsessively revising, editing and amplifying. Now in its final polish, Speak, Memory deserves to stand as a rare and precious specimen of the autobiographical...
...Indian artist each thing in nature represents an individual ego reincarnated at a particular moment in its search for knowledge of the Self. Man is the turning point where the Path of Pursuit gradually yields to the Path of Return. Hence, both Hindus and Buddhists attach immeasurable importance to birth in human form...
...beginning with the invocation of the hosts of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and the offerings to them. Then he must conceptualize the four infinite moods of friendliness, compassion, sympathy, and impartiality. He must meditate upon the emptiness of the non-existence of all things, in order to destroy his individual ego consciousness. Then only should he invoke the desired divinity by the utterance of the appropriate seedword and begin to identity himself completely with the divinity to be represented. Finally, on pronouncing the dhyana mantram (in which the divinity's attributes are defined), the divinity appears visibly, as in a dream...
Indian art is designed to inspire spiritual freedom and self-realization. It attempts to release the spirit from the individual ego in order to entirely become one with the divine nature of the Self; to attain awareness of the total unity of being. The aesthetic experience in Indian art occurs when the self perceives the Self. Hence Indian art, properly experienced, is meant to be a kind of divine inspiration and expression of a higher understanding
...Your Essay "Right You Are if You Say You Are-Obscurely" [Dec. 30] was merely an acute masochistic reaction formation to your own hostile-aggressive syntax, which itself derives from an inadequate ego-syntonic defense system with paranoiac overtones...