Ego Quotes - Page 17

• As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Practice, Goal

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• A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.

  Pam Brown

  Beautiful, Stars, Memories

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• The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

  Andrew Cohen

  Differences, Self, Creative

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• Big egos have little ears.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Listening, Ears, Littles

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• The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

  Andrew Cohen

  Unique, Attachment, Feelings

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• If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal.

  Robert Anthony

  Creating, Keys, Goal

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• If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

  Henry Miller

  Christian, Crazy, War

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Successful, Reality

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

  John Mayer

  Song, Horse, Past

  Esquire Magazine, November 1, 2004.

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• To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Self, Collaboration

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.337, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Can we learn to become more learning-oriented individually and collectively, rather than 'I know' oriented?

  David Bohm

  Learning, Knows

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• I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

  Kenneth Clark

  Hurt, Kindness, Believe

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

  Matthew Kelly

  Focus, Matter, Facts

  Matthew Kelly (2005). “The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Matthew Kelly

  Mother, Self, Challenges

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.63, BookBaby

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• The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

  Joe Vitale

  Demand, Bigger, Universe

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• The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.

  James Redfield

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Progress

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• Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

  Robert Altman

  Fall, Thinking, Traps

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• Every need got an ego to feed.

  Bob Marley

  Needs

  Song: Pimper's Paradise, Album: Uprising, 1980

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• I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Believe, Mean, Buddhism

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• It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

  Don Marquis

  Believe, Would Be, World

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• My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

  Randy Jackson

  Watches, Needs, Tvs

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

  Alan Ball

  Kind, Bigs, Tamed

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. September 7, 2008.

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• Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

  David Bohm

  Individuality, Centeredness

  David Bohm's dialogue with Renee Weber, first published in the journal ReVision (1983), later published in Renee Weber "Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity (p. 30), 1986.

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

  Robert Hughes

  Strong, Mind, Desire

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.84, Vintage

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