A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.
You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego.
The ego knows itself by comparison.
I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others.
Instead of "I love you," it would be better to say "I am love-I am the embodiment of Pure Love. " Remove the I and you, and you will find that there is only Love. It is as if Love is imprisoned between the I and you. Remove the I and you, for they are unreal; they are self-imposed walls that don't exist. The gulf between I and you is the ego. When the ego is removed the distance disappears and the I and you also disappear. They merge to become one - and that is Love.
Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.
Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.
The need is not to amputate the ego. . . but to transcend it.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.