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“Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.”

Fall Individual Strong Ego Claims Dare Endless Oneness Thread Entity Catastrophe Beads Rise And Fall

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego.”

Kind I Can Ideas Character Effort Ego Creating Entity Defining Creating Something Alter Ego

Author:Shook

“The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces”

Ifs Firsts Faces Wish Ego Sticks Surface Heels Entity Projection Analogies

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.”

Want Firsts Mean Persons Bigs Ego Greek Bus Entity Greece First Person Pronouns

Author:Robert Thurman

“Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don’t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.”

Thinking Two Self Hands Able Answers Knowing Streets Baby Ego Self Confidence Pushing Entity Hand In Hand Kicking Kitten Old Lady Being Pretty

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”

Ifs Giving Self Race Mistake Team Awareness Car Ego Self Awareness Shoes Champion Entity Tire Egotism

Book:The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.”

Knows Feels Mind Heart Moments Feelings Beautiful Spirituality Belief Speak Forget Mystery Ego Manifestation Sunset Entity Forget You Separateness Beautiful Sunset

Author:Rajneesh

“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”

Reality Loss Identity Ego Shining Seeking Entity

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.”

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Author:Ram Dass

“There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a 'thing' to let go of, we're in trouble. We need to change our view of reality, not attack a nonexistent entity.”

Needs Ideas Reality Views Trouble Letting Go Ego Concepts Burden Entity Need A Change

Author:Sharon Salzberg