Ego Quotes - Page 38

• Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Reality, Ideas, Shadow

  H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books

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• Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

  Epicurus

  Writing, Enough, Audience

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• I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Determination, Struggle, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

  Louise Brooks

  Real, Writing, Blow

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• What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Dream, I Hate You

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

  J. D. Salinger

  Truth, Sick, Interesting

  "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1961.

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• When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

  T. S. Eliot

  War, Reality, Unjust

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• The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Finding Yourself

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• Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

  Roméo Dallaire

  Struggle, Subterfuge, Endless

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• One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else?

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Nice, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2017). “City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

  Alan Watts

  Skins, Bags, Hallucinations

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• The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Essence, Familiar

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• Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Responsibility, Feel Better, Hey

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

  William S. Burroughs

  Artist, Color, Museums

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• Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Culture, Matter

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• Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it creeps up to it and steals one of its essential camouflages. In a hunger for soul, our own ego-self steals the pelt

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Lonely, Light, Self

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• A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.

  Karen Armstrong

  Atheist, Creativity, Self

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• If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice.

  Rick Warren

  Pride, Idols, Giving

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.74, Zondervan

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Want

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.41, Penguin

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• Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Crush, Mistake, Enough Time

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• Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

  Cassandra Clare

  Majority, Jace, Said

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• I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, I Believe, Dies

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.348, Routledge

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• ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lonely, Giving Up, Loneliness

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• ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Breathing, Heaven, Unity

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

  J. D. Salinger

  Real, Hobbies

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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