The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

—Richard Burton

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Richard Walter Burton (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

—Richard Burton

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They want to hear that Buddhism is the answer to all of their problems, not a big fat arrow pointing to the source of all of their problems: ego.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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One can write, think, and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

—Evelyn Waugh

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We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

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Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day … we become seekers.

—Peter Matthiessen

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I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing.

—Brian Koffman

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