“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, who died on this day in 1970, on how to grow old:
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a Wiki study in contrasts:
“Russell was a pacifist who championed anti-imperialism and chaired the India League. He occasionally advocated preventive nuclear war…”
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One method to subdue and check the EGO is to read extensively. This reading will highlight the dangers of a bloated EGO.