Ego Quotes - Page 25

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

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

Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

There must be a God because he made me.

But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.

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

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

The ego knows itself by comparison.