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“Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Force Ought Ego Brushes

Author:Robert Genn

“In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?”

World Artist Force Voice Modern Protect Ego Unique Rivers Competition Individuality Artistic Productive Solo Rivalry Modern Times Paddling

Author:Sara Genn

“When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.”

Way Facts Order Three Evil Force Virtue Ego Praise Interpretation Aggressive Egoism Evil Things

Book:Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy

“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Trying Remember Energy Force Effort Vision Security Demand Ego Waste Perception Slave Lists Satisfying Nails Foreheads Ego Trip

Author:Stuart Wilde

“I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.”

Moving Energy Force Consciousness Teach Pure Ego Karma Manifestation

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was "dead" very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.”

Writing Sometimes Force Ego Inspired Sheer Revision Force Of Will

Author:Jesse Michaels

“When Donald Trump becomes president, he'll fly on a jumbo jet rebadged Hair Force One. It will be oversized to contain his massive ego, and will have all the latest and greatest blowdryer technology.”

Force President Technology Hair Trump Ego Massive Jet Air Force

Author:Michael R. Burch

“The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces.”

Men Trying Facts Use Force Differences Ego Approach Importance Horse Relation Checks Superiors Borrowed Riders

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

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

“Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.”

Humans Force Ego Creating Boundaries Human Life Overwhelming Breakthrough Psychedelic Eros Dissolving

Author:Terence McKenna

“One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.”

“One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Has Beens Shows Force Struggle Ego Our Family Destructive Show Business Runaway Business Family

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.”

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life

“There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.”

Knows Men Ends Force Sides Honest Politician Demand Ego Deserve Faults Conviction Candidates Voters Sheer Both Sides Honest Man Aisle

Book:Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence

Source: Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence

“Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.”

Persons Spiritual Universe Force Grows Causes Natural Sun Grace Acceptance Humility Ego Plant Gravity Grace Of God

Author:Simone Weil

“With this ego arises all the problems, the thousand and one problems. This ego will not allow you to fall in love and millions of problems will arise in your life. This ego would like everybody to surrender to you; this ego will not allow you to surrender to anybody - and love happens only when you surrender. When you force somebody to surrender, it is hate, destruction, it is not love.”

Problem Happens Hate Fall Force Millions Thousand Ego Destruction And Love Falling In Love Surrender Arise

Author:Rajneesh

“The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.”

Men Body Force Goal Pleasure Powerful Ego Strive Western Denied Integrating Therapeutic Fulfilment

Book:Bioenergetics

Source: Bioenergetics

“If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you - it is suicidal.”

Ifs Way Whole Beautiful Happiness Life Is Force Effort Existence Meditation Holy Ego Deserve Misery Destroyed Suicidal Make You Happy Life Is A Gift Happiness Love

Author:Rajneesh

“There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality.”

Mind Ideas Self Reality Together Force Felt Results Ego Stones Spread Impression Lakes Smooth Rapids Vibrations Transmission Vibrate

Book:The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.”

Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your way. It is only your ego mind that is fearful. When you surrender to spirit and listen to the voice of your deeper intelligence, you free yourself from fear and release the obstacles your ego has created.”

Way Mind Spirit Force Voice Levels Situation Struggle Ego Obstacles Deeper Surrender Release Fearful Unfolding Free Yourself

Author:Deepak Chopra

“To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.”

Men Want Force Class Genius Ego Men And Women Driving

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.”

Force President Support Air Military Events Ego Campaigns Nine Operations President Obama Pulling Trails Air Force Aircraft Cargo Military Operations

Author:Fred Thompson