Ego Quotes - Page 26

• My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, War, Book

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• What it takes to reach this place I'm speaking about is to be in spirit. You shift who you are away from what you have, what you do, what your reputation is, what people think of you, and all of that ego-based thinking. You shift into the understanding that who you are is a piece of God - who you are is a piece of the source - and when you stay connected to that in your thoughts you inspire others to do the same.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Inspire

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.

  Doreen Virtue

  Party, Tea, Tools

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• Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do.

  Lily Collins

  Appreciation, Fighting, Swans

  "Lily Collins: The ‘Mirror Mirror’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 14, 2012.

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• I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego, that would be a mistake. In the early years of enlightenment, psychologists were afraid of Hindus and Buddhists meditating because they thought they were going to shatter their egos and then they'd have to wear diapers or something, like they'd lose their toilet training or what have you. They were really afraid of it.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Mistake

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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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• In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolute ego there, no disconnected one, self, or ego, then that actually strengthens your conventional ego. It does so in the sense that then you realize it's a construction, and you can strengthen it in order to help others, or do whatever you're trying to do, it's not like you no longer know who you are. Then you can organize your behavior by using your ego, as it's now the pronoun.

  Robert Thurman

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.

  Robert Thurman

  Helping Others, Ideas, May

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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.

  Robert Thurman

  Teacher, Helping Others, Creative

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Mar 25, 2017

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• You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.

  Robert Thurman

  Important, World, Being There

  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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• One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Tunnels, Interesting, Brain

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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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• On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Earth, Consciousness

  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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• If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Identity, Groups

  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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• Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ignorance

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Civilization, Perspective, Together

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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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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