“The real you, the inner you, is pure, very pure. It's loving and it's magnanimous. It understands. It has patience. It is tolerant-it will wait forever while your ego trots all over everywhere trying to figure life out. It is pleasing to remember that back home there is a friend who's waiting for you to stop being silly, who's waiting to welcome you with open arms if and when you show up.” IfsTryingRealShowsHomeRememberWaitingForeverFiguresArmsPureEgoSillyWelcomeBack HomeWaiting For YouReal YouHaving PatienceIfs AndBeing SillyOpen ArmsMagnanimous Author:Stuart Wilde
“I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantStillsI CanFeelingsHomeStuffHurtEgoCarefulBotherBe CarefulStrokesHurting Someone Author:Jack White
“I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.” WorldWayShouldLooksHomeJobsGoalStyleEgoDressesDesignerDominationPerfectionistWorld Domination Author:Tom Ford
“Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present themselves at the location. Be flexible, and be patient. Leave ego at home. Get the photo before you yell at the asshole, not after.” ThinkingWantHomeEgoBlindPatientLocationFlexibleBe Patient Author:Peter Menzel
“The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.” PeopleFirstsLittlesHomeNightReadingBitsInterestingWatchesWeekFansFineEgoLittle BitInstinctVampireFridayDiariesWeird ThingsFriday NightDays Of The WeekVampire Diaries Author:Caroline Dries
“We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.” WantHomeHandsUnderstandingMediaEgoBuiltDown AndSticksHidingThrowingFoolishness Author:Afrika Bambaataa
“My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.” EndsPlayHomeJobsLife IsGamesBoysBasketballEgoSingersVideoBrownThe End Of The DayHanging OutPersonal LifeGreat JobAlter Ego Author:Chris Brown
“...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.” IfsWorldGivingMeanPersonsSelfHelpingHomeSupportPathLonelinessDependsBecomingEgoGiving UpLonelyPropertyFamiliarSecureSuperiorityPreservationRefugeeDistractedHomelandHelplessnessClingingSelf PreservationLonely Person Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony - the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.” LittlesSometimesHomeSoundPayNiceEgoFantasticNastyAlimony Author:Craig Ferguson
“Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.” WorldNeedsFirstsSelfMatterEnoughHomeCareEarthPeaceWaitingActingRiskEgoSavedHealEnlightenedComing HomeTrue NatureReciprocal Author:Joanna Macy
“Surrender is not that you should give up your family, give up your children, or give up your houses and homes and your properties. Surrendering is here: give up your ego to begin with and then give up your conditionings.” LoveGivingShouldChildrenHomeWisdomSpiritHouseMeditationEgoGiving UpYogaOur ChildrenPropertySurrenderOur FamilyYour ChildrenWellnessConditioningHouse And Home Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.” KnowsSelfHomeConsciousnessMeditationTroubleEgoConsciousWho You AreComing HomeSymptomsSelf ConsciousSelf Consciousness Author:Rajneesh
“For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.” YearsSometimesHomeMotherWiseEgoDaughterMaking MoneyAllowingEditorsArrangementsOur Daughter Author:Will Allison
“On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.” FirstsChildrenSelfHomeVirtueDemocracyBrokenEgoElectionSacredMetaphorMythologyTyrannyInnocentSelf RespectCynicalFalsehoodRulingCrowdedAlliancesParentalInnocent Children Author:August Strindberg
“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
“I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.” ThinkingFeelsChildrenHelpingHomeSchoolClassWonderfulAcceptanceEgoFeel GoodCooksWonderful ThingsChildren LearningBuilding Confidence Author:Giada De Laurentiis