The Event Horizon

The three ways to destroy self-importance: sever the head of the 3,000 headed monster one at a time; starve it; your symbolic death. (Silence, 249)

The best mean to oil the wheels of energy redeployment is losing self-importance
Capable of losing some of that self-importance we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur and provide ourselves with enough energy to enter the second attention and catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe. (Dreaming, 37)

Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our time offended by someone…without self-importance we are invulnerable. (Fire, 12)

Self-importance can’t be fought by niceties.
The first category of seers focus their activities toward pragmatic goals that would benefit other seers and man in general; the second category don’t practice self-restraint fail to resolve the problem of self-importance. (Fire, 14)

Warriors practice self-restraint as a matter of strategy, not principle. (Fire, 15)