“The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.” MindHeartChallengesKnowingPathTruth IsEgoGuidesPrimariesLabourOver YouKnowledge Of GodNafs Author:Shams Tabrizi
“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.” WayHeartHas BeensStatesSpiritualPathOur LivesJourneyChildhoodEmotionalMaterialsDevelopmentBirthLessonsEgoAnd LoveForgottenSeekingPossessionGuidesBitterFrustrationDestinationInwardToilFacilitateHappiness And LoveTrue PowerMemento Author:R. Carlos Nakai
“It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to your every word and whatever you say goes, and that can be slightly corrupting. And actually, to be a good director, you have to take ego out of it, because hopefully what you've done is surrounded yourself with brilliant people. Let them be brilliant and you just shepherd that and marshal that and hopefully guide it however you can, but definitely not to the extent that you're overbearing.” PeopleDoneCoursesEasyListeningDirectorsEgoGuidesBrilliantHopefullyShepherdsEgotisticalGood DirectorsOverbearingWhatever You Say Author:Dan Mazer
“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.” PeopleHas BeensStillsTwoSpiritualVoiceWiseHeardEgoGuidesSelf DiscoveryHystericalCalculatingSpiritual Beings Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires. We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.” NeedsDoeMovingDesireValuesChristChurchEgoHighestAdultsCatholicGuidesMatureCatholicismTrendsTidesDictatorshipNoveltyFlocksRelativism Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.” WantMightEnergyGoalPowerfulSituationMovementEgoIdealsHorseRelationGuidesCompareObligedPsychoanalysisRidersPrerogative Author:Sigmund Freud
“Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers.” Has BeensAgeSpiritualCultureAbilityForgetAnimalEgoEnlightenmentUnderstoodGuidesManifestationPrimitiveDisguiseCelestialHealerBrainwashedAge Of Enlightenment Author:Zeena Schreck
“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.” WorldPlayHomePainRolesRiskEgoPressureGuidesReleaseLiberationTrue Nature Author:Joanna Macy