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“In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.”

Ifs Way Believe Two Different Certain Type Ego Threat Dues Insecurity Two Ways Insecurity And Fear

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.”

Men Giving Believe May Light Certain Results Cases Birth Ego Sight Blind Misery Confusion Operations Projection Mundane Madmen Disorientation

Author:R. D. Laing

“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

Knows World Needs Sometimes Artist Certain Imagination Ego Stubborn Gears Circulation Figments Egomaniacs

Author:Jon Pareles

“The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.”

Mind Kind Persons Ideas Certain Consciousness Particular Ego Unity Identical

Book:Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

“I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.”

People Thinking Certain Hate Belief Difficult Views Republican Ego Democrat Conservative Competitiveness

Author:Mike Tyson

“I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.”

People Thinking Certain Loses Ego

Author:Julie Delpy

“Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.”

Certain Lines Ego

Book:Misery

Source: Misery

“One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.”

Sometimes Certain Challenges Answers Situation Ego Vacation Clients Convincing

Author:Eric Dezenhall

“I think that the only choice that we have in life is whether we align ourselves with God or not. I think everything else is all taken care of for us. You know? If you choose to align with your source, with your spirit, then your life will go in a certain direction. If you choose to align yourself with your ego, and your false self, and the belief that who you are is what you accomplish and what other people think of you and what you accumulate, if you just go that route - the outer route, if you will, the outer path - your life will go in a different direction.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Different Self Care Life Is Spirit Certain Choices Belief Path Taken Source Ego Who You Are Accomplish You Choose Routes Think Of You Different Directions

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.”

World Years Mind Humans May Different Age Certain Greater Ego Approach Years Ago Bigger Human Mind Noisy Density Different Ages

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."”

“[On performing in action movies] I've spent all those years learning how to do certain skills, and then that competitive spirit kicks in and you want to do the stunts. Basically, it's the the male competitive ego at work.”

Want Years Action Spirit Certain Skills Ego Males Performing Kicks Action Movie Competitive Spirit

Author:Jason Statham

“We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree 0f vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.”

World Needs Humans Certain Dies Goal Born Human Beings Vision Achieve This World Ego Degrees Life Goal

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.”

Way Needs Mind Certain Order Realizing Results Habit Ego Waste Consequence Complaining Resistance Wasting Time Our Thoughts

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.”

Giving Certain Belief Identity Comfort Letting Go Ego Give Me Scary Release Belief Systems

Author:Richard Brancatisano

“It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.”

People Ifs Hard Certain Easy Loneliness Involved Mets Ego Elements

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake”

Ifs Men Kind Hard Certain Felt Practice Feet Ego Moved Blake

Book:Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19

Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19

“Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous.”

Trying Mind Certain Names Love You Possibility Type Ego Elements Negative Envy Jealousy Jealousy Envy Jealousy And Envy

Author:Rajneesh

“If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mind Body Purpose Certain Found Greater Ego Connected Service To Others Mind Body

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it - effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace.”

World Mind Humans Whole Past Desire Certain Imagination Effort Grace One Thing Taught Masters Ego Essentials Disappear Human Mind Collapse Palaces Edifice Gestalt

Author:Rajneesh

“Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.”

Thinking Needs Wells Ends Play Able Young Certain Term Hurt Careers Player Amount Ego Tricks Arrogance Better Than You Push Yourself

Author:David Cone

“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.”

Doe Moving Desire Certain Goal Ego Highest Dictatorship Relativism Moral Relativism

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.”

Form Spirit Certain Ego Including Manifestation Emptiness Radiant Obstruction Exuberance

Book:The Essential Ken Wilber

Source: The Essential Ken Wilber

“Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.”

Persons Facts Spirit Certain Ego Concerned Dull Remarkable Worth Living

Book:The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

“Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.”

Ideas Play Reality Certain Social Water Roles Ego Institutions Who You Are Noise Symbols Organisms Liquid Living Organisms Social Institutions

Book:Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion

Source: Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion