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“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?”

Ifs Way Games Speak Interesting Our Lives Succeed Ego Elements Function Athlete Clarity Remove Athletics

Author:Garth Stein

“Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.”

Inspirational Body Memories Brain Consciousness Opinion Source Pure Ego Perception Function Objectives Tied Disturbed Dysfunction

Author:Pim van Lommel

“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

“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

“Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!”

Ifs Way Giving Feels Trying Done Film Watches Special Ego Function Very Good Scripts Chairs Irrelevant Rehearsal Tourists Visiting Film Set

Author:Tom Stoppard

“The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.”

Mind Desire Strong Ego Function Primitive Imperialism Fins

Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.”

Whole Dies Ego Hatred Function Train Greed Following Jealousy Engines Possessiveness Your Jealous Hatred And Jealousy

Author:Rajneesh

“Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.”

Humans Doe Human Beings Creativity Environment Talent Depends Ego Function Upbringing

Book:Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

Source: Creativity: The Magic Synthesis

“The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.”

Mind Art States Ego Standing Function Clubs Over It Sensations Wholeness

Author:Alan Watts