How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?
Big egos have little ears.
This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is awareness, watchfulness. The only thing that is not part of the world of action is pure awareness. No shadow is created by pure awareness. It is so pure that light can pass through it - it is transparent and no shadow is created.
I was hitting him with what I thought was my full strength, I hit him in the head about four times and every time I hit him, I was like, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry'. And he's like, 'It's fine, it didn't even hurt'. Yeah, that was kind of an ego deflater!
I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e. , an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U. S. ," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order. "
Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires. . . Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
We must learn to outgrow our egos in exchange for constructive dialogue rather than debate. In addition, we must be capable of stating problems and proposing solutions clearly and succinctly, without distortion of meaning or misunderstanding, even when these solutions are radically opposed to accepted norms.
I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
God is the causal power of consciousness as the ground of all being. So we can say that God is the causal power exerted in the creative experiences that we have. However, that causal power is usually very limited; we've become conditioned and that conditioning comes from what we call ego.
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.