Ego Quotes - Page 20

• Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Men, Denial

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• 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.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Wind, Church

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• The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dog, Tired, Steps

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• Show me success without ego!

  Ivana Trump

  Show Me, Shows

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• Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jesus, Deeds, Spirit

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• Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

  Rod Steiger

  Acting, Would Be, Actors

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• You can never be free
  as long as you have an ego to defend.

  Anthony de Mello

  Long

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• Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

  Luther Allison

  Play, People, Music Love

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• The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

  Reginald Ray

  Stars, Reality, Fire

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• The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Men, Mind, May

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• ...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Sleep, Hands, Desire

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Today, take a break from your ego and don't take yourself too seriously. Enjoy your Spirit and laugh!

  Sonia Choquette

  Laughing, Today, Spirit

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Feb 15, 2013

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• The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

  Helen M. Luke

  Agony, Misery, Minutes

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• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Views, Practice, Everyday

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• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

  David D. Burns

  Mean, Humility, Thinking

  "Answers to Questions from a Psychology Today Blogger". feelinggood.com. October 24, 2013.

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Team, Player, Messi

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• Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.

  Mark Lawson

  Photography, Sex, Stars

  "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Lying, Self, Consciousness

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

  Donald Trump

  Real, Healthy, Opinion

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Dec 09, 2013

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• Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Teacher, Art, Class

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• It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to your every word and whatever you say goes, and that can be slightly corrupting. And actually, to be a good director, you have to take ego out of it, because hopefully what you've done is surrounded yourself with brilliant people. Let them be brilliant and you just shepherd that and marshal that and hopefully guide it however you can, but definitely not to the extent that you're overbearing.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Listening, Shepherds

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego.

  Wayne Dyer

  Needs, Spirit, Inspired

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• There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, People, Greed

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