Best conscious & ego Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”

People Way Giving Able Purpose Order Culture Understanding Growth Attitude Trouble Design Personality Ego Giving Up Conscious Planning Urges Rooted Utilitarian Inner Growth

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.”

“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.”

Soul Ends Feelings Might Spirit Difficult Consciousness Higher Pure Ego Conscious Function Infinite Structure Senses Preserves Sublime Reducing Abolish Immediacy

Author:Kenny Smith

“Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.”

“Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.”

Stills Moving Clear Meditation Buddhism Ego Enlightenment Conscious Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In deep sleep, even though one does not exist as an externally or internally conscious ego, one can report a good nights sleep because a very subtle ego remnant remains, permitting the experience of limitless and bliss.”

Doe Self Night Sleep Ego Conscious Remains Bliss Reports Subtle Limitless Good Night Remnants Good Night Sleep Deep Sleep

Author:James R. Swartz

“I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.”

Littles Self Faces Stuff Lines Design Pride Fine Ego Conscious Your Face Self Conscious Fine Lines

Author:Shepard Fairey

“[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.”

“There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.”

Would Be Pleasure Principles Doubt Ego Conscious Resistance Liberation No Doubt Unconscious Repressed Conscious And Unconscious

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“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.”

Humans Looks Heart Long Soul Dream Light Purpose Night Existence Vision Darkness Clear Doors Ego Conscious Mere Intimate Cosmic Sole Human Existence Kindles Memories Dreams Reflections Primeval

Author:Carl Jung

“The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.”

Thinking Men Feels Mean Different Ends Enough Facts Use Feelings Past Universe Individual Consciousness Position He Man Genius Ego Conscious Perceive Centre Neighbour Means To An End

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.”

World Light Grows Consciousness Responsibility Darkness Awareness Ego Conscious Disappear Belonging Coexist Unconsciousness Alertness

Author:Rajneesh

“Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.”

Way Firsts Made Choices Decision Teaching Ego Conscious Good Things

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious ego, which then transforms the outer stimuli into a psychological experience.”

World Self Body Reality Ego Conscious Including Psychological Productive Stimulus Receiver Outer Worlds

Author:Albert Hofmann

“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.”

Attention Focus Ego Conscious Egotism

Book:Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek

Source: Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek

“The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.”

Ifs Mind Different Self Wisdom Speak Understanding Consciousness Source Ego Illusion Conscious Contrast True Self Power Of Love

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth

“He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.”

Self Faces Ego Conscious Rose Caught Witty Monsters Triumph Slips Handsome Self Conscious Busted Alter Ego Bluntness

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.”

“A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.”

Consciousness Evolution Ego Conscious Oneness

Author:Ram Dass

“I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that is right. Don't be unconscious because that is wrong. And then whatsoever you do in consciousness is right. But people are living in unconsciousness. And let me tell you: in unconsciousness you may think you are doing something right, but it can't be right. Out of unconsciousness, virtue cannot flower; it may appear virtuous but it can't be. Deep down it will still be something wrong. If you are unconscious and you give money to a poor man, watch: your ego is strengthened. This is sin.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Giving May Stills I Can Sin Poor Consciousness Watches Virtue One Thing Flower Ego Conscious Let Me Unconscious Virtuous Deep Down Poor Man Unconsciousness

Author:Rajneesh

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