Best 1880 quotes in «ego quotes» category

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.

The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego, and you then can be more effective in helping others, and creative in whatever work you do.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.

The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego.

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

The ego is a very bad quality. Ego sees everything as sep­arate; it sees everything as dual. You must remove this ego and see only the Unity. Think only of Unity; think only of the basis of everything.

The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker for heaven, it can hanker for nirvana. It doesn`t matter what it hankers for - hankering is what it is, desiring is what it is, projecting into the future is what it is.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

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.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself

The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel that you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any way. Don't go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.

The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.

The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.