“You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.” LittlesSoulTogetherWonderEnvironmentEgoSingingSkinsCellsBagsOrganismsDrearySymbiosisSinging TogetherChorale Author:Jean Houston
“The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.” InspirationalImportantIdeasGovernmentPowerfulEnvironmentOne ThingWillingEgoIndiaImportant ThingsSellsSellingExternal Environment Author:Dhirubhai Ambani
“I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.” WayEnoughWholeAbleCoursesEnvironmentHealthyEgoGreedHumaneWay To LiveWhole FoodsHumane Way Author:Lenny Kravitz
“[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.” MenWorldWayMadeSelfFacesUniverseViewsEnvironmentEgoConsciousCrisisPsychologicalMortalsDestructiveThrownMeaninglessSolitaryExistentialWorld ViewSelf DestructiveExistential CrisisSoulless Author:Richard Tarnas
“The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.” ImportantMovingFormLife IsPurposeSocialReligiousMoralDestinyEnvironmentEvolutionEgoUltimateFabricReligious Life Book:Stories and Biographies from Iqbal Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal
“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterSongVoiceImaginationInterestingEnvironmentAchieveStagePositionEgoSingingStudiosLike MeVarietyAlternativesReplicateAlter Ego Author:Planningtorock
“Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do.” WholeFightingEnvironmentEgoClothesBallsWingsEverydayAppreciationForestsHatsHeelsCostumesSwansGownsCorsetsAlter Ego Author:Lily Collins
“Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.” HumansDoeHuman BeingsCreativityEnvironmentTalentDependsEgoFunctionUpbringing Book:Creativity: The Magic Synthesis Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis
“I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.” PeopleWorldFeelsRealitySpiritualBeliefViewsLibertyEnvironmentShareCreationEgoCrisisEmbraceWesternOnenessOur WorldSpheresMaterialisticWorld ViewSpiritual Crisis Author:Albert Hofmann
“Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego.” MenStillsSelfAmericaNaturalReligiousAttitudeStruggleEnvironmentPrideHabitDisciplineEgoMeetingsSpeciesPassionateSelf DisciplineCeoBad HabitsConservingOverconfident Author:Tom Chappell