“Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.” IfsKnowsStrongBornCasesEgoAnxietyTerrorSupremeGiftedSupreme ConfidenceHigh Anxiety Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.” SelfHateEmotionConsciousnessDoubtBuddhismLimitsEgoAnxietyMindfulnessNegativeSense Of SelfMeditatingNegative ThoughtsThoughts And Emotions Author:Frederick Lenz
“The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.” ThinkingWantGivingSelfSeemsMightExistenceOffersEgoAnxietyFamiliarGrainDeep DownSense Of Self Author:Roger Housden
“I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.” SituationEgoAnxietyBubblesDeep BreathSocial AnxietyTake A Deep BreathAlter Ego Author:Lindy Booth
“Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.” MindSelfMotivationResultsHumilityEgoPaperAnxietyOppositesErrorsCalmWork Out Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.” WorldSelfThreeFoundUnderstandingLosesPracticeDivineEgoAnxietyWorshipStressSpeedCuresRelaxCombatDevotedStrain Author:B.K.S. Iyengar