Word: ego
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...urban legend that raping a virgin cures the disease. The son of a German-Jewish mother and an Afrikaans father, Uys, 56, began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After...
...wonderfully," Faxon says. "The club captain gave me a necktie, and said I could play there any time, the rest of my life. They realized what I was doing. I?ll tell you, once you?re established in this game, it does kind of make you suck up your ego to be playing a qualifier, but those folks made me feel just great...
...body or the mind and not even the soul. That is when you get the first taste of moksha, or enlightenment. It is the sense of the opening of the silence, the sense where you lose yourself and are happy doing it, where for the first time your ego has merged with the superconsciousness. You feel you no longer exist, for you have walked into the valley of death. And if you start walking more and more in this valley, you become freer...
...trip from you to no you. A trip from the known to unknown. From the valley of total knowledge, stuff and ego to utter surrender where nothing remains in you but pure consciousness. You go to a stage where you are totally free of fear of dying. Or living. And that's what a yogi means in India. It is someone who has moved from body to the mind, to the soul, to awareness, to the subtle surrender to the superconsciousness. Next time you head for a yoga class, ask yourself whether you are ready to be a seeker...
...when my new friends, continuing their efforts to rebuild my ego, lined up to take pictures with me as if I were a cutout of the Rock, I felt much better. But as we headed to our cars, I heard senior Vanessa Reid say to her friend, "I would have liked to see LeVar Burton, I must...