Ego Quotes - Page 33

• The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.

  Robert Thurman

  Mean, Greek, Want

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Looks, Next, Kind

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Father, Discovery, Stories

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Names, Mind

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cases, Stuck, Humans

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Groups, Here And There

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Views, People, Tvs

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, People

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Desire, Trying, Affirmation

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering/Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Past, Law, Needs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

  Marianne Williamson

  Struggle, Mind, World

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

  Alicia Keys

  Important, Proud, Be Proud

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's like a Master Class in Acting for three hours. I go to work and I learn so much and do so much. I'm privileged. I'm privileged to be on stage with them. That's all I can say. They're extremely generous. There are no egos in the room at all.

  Sean Mahon

  Class, Acting, Three

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Personality, Want, Able

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

  Cass McCombs

  People, Personality, Songwriters

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

  Britta Phillips

  New York, Obnoxious, I Can

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cities, Two, Gambling

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Stars, Directors, Connections

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.

  Peter Travers

  Suicide, College, Two

  "Damsels in Distress" by Peter Travers, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2012.

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• This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

  Alastair Campbell

  Football, Team, Believe

  "NewsPeople Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• 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."

  David Brooks

  Order, Two, Essentials

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com.

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• In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Vanity, Self, Indulge In

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means "one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group."

  Sharon Gannon

  Selfish, Fall, Mean

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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