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“If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.”

People Ifs Long Life Is Joy Opportunity Fun Mistake Talent Ego Bigger Plenty Having Fun Branches Making Mistakes Jealous Rooted

Author:Ethan Hawke

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone." — Kate Daniels”

Ifs World Giving May Mean Ends Would Be Desire Objects Ego Empathy Concepts Regard Careful Myth Mythology Miserable Greek Damage Be Careful Greek Mythology Deities Kate Greek Myth No Empathy

Book:Magic Strikes

Source: Magic Strikes

“Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.”

“When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.”

Ifs World Able Tree Mankind Humility Pride Offers Ego Remains Fruit Humble Genuine Worthwhile

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.”

Ifs Self Whole Civilization Ego Consequence Ultimate Western Sense Of Self Transcendent Western Civilization Ennui

Author:Terence McKenna

“You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life”

Ifs Way Mind Different Use Beautiful Used Reading Memories Knowing Dangerous Ignorance Ego Increase Different Ways Subtle Not Knowing Knowledgeable Poisoning Knowledge Wisdom Wrong Direction

Author:Rajneesh

“If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Feels Persons Self Use My Own Ability Risk Objects Ego Reflection Commitment Absence Willingness Exploitation Exposure Ability To See I Need Him

Author:Erich Fromm

“If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.”

Ifs May Hurt Ego Disease Anger Angry Complexes Temper Inferiority Inferiority Complex

Author:Rajneesh

“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”

“Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.”

Ifs Ego Accepted Hilarious Fifth

Author:Willard Scott

“Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped. One has not to be jealous if one wants to be loving. It becomes so clear that there is no question about it; one can simply see the point that if you are jealous, love is impossible. Jealousy is bound to create misery. Jealousy is part of ego, the shadow of the ego, the shadow of a shadow - and love needs egolessness. They can't go together, they can't co-exist.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.”

Ifs Life Made Would Be Strong Love Is Mystery Creation Ego Infinite Bounds Denial Liberation Finite Bondage Assertion Here I Am What Is Love Finitude

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.”

Ifs Soul Remember Joy Spirit Lying Meditation Ego Yoga Resistance Contact Treatment Meditating Reluctance If Then Ego And Soul

Book:The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

Source: The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

“Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected....but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.”

“And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.”

Ifs Knows Way Love Wisdom Spirit Accepting Meditation Ego Yoga Wellness

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Before knowing the truth, if you depend on your intelligence, you can be misled completely. Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego. After Realization, the truth that comes to you is the real, pure truth and is not your ego.”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.”

“So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand what is the use of having ego because you have such a lot of powers within you, which you have not utilized. We should use, but because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage and you can do a lot.”

Ifs Knows Love Should Use Wisdom Spirit Can Do Meditation Love You Thousand Ego Yoga Manage Wellness Enlightened Within You

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“Let somebody insult you and see that that you do not answer back. Just see it, not to get into temper. Try that your ego doesn't react. That can be achieved very easily if you try in the mirror, look at yourself and laugh at yourself, make fun of yourself.”

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Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.”

Ifs Love Wisdom Spirit Fun Meditation Ego Yoga Wellness

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Long Helping Winning Individual Player Team Ego Seasons Accomplishment Teamwork

Author:David Robinson

“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'”

Ifs Has Beens Able Voice Love Is Inspiring Compassion Love You Arms Ego Ears Towns Grateful China Thoughtful Loving Life Say I Love You Harlem I Am Grateful

Author:Maya Angelou

“In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.”

Source: The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings

“And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.”

Source: Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers

“If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.”

Ifs Trying Reason Would Be Risk Stupid Ego No Reason

Author:Kathleen Turner

“Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.”

People Ifs Want Values Rich Ego Stuck Truest Adding Value

Author:T. Harv Eker

“We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.”

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Author:Betty Dodson

“Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be tense, you will remain tense. How to relax? Is there any way to relax? There is no way unless understanding is there. If you understand the nature of the world, the nature of the very existence, then who are you to worry, and why be in a worried state continuously?”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Ego is illness; it needs an atmosphere of sadness to exist. Seriousness creates the sadness in you. Sadness is a necessary soil for the ego. Hence your saints are so serious, for the simple reason that they are the most egoistic people on the earth. They may be trying to be humble, but they are very proud of their humbleness. They take their humbleness very seriously.”

People Ifs Needs Trying May Reason Earth Dies Fun Simple Sadness Serious Proud Ego Laughter Saint Illness Humble Atmosphere Soil Seriousness Be Humble Humbleness Playfulness

Author:Rajneesh

“I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that is right. Don't be unconscious because that is wrong. And then whatsoever you do in consciousness is right. But people are living in unconsciousness. And let me tell you: in unconsciousness you may think you are doing something right, but it can't be right. Out of unconsciousness, virtue cannot flower; it may appear virtuous but it can't be. Deep down it will still be something wrong. If you are unconscious and you give money to a poor man, watch: your ego is strengthened. This is sin.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding.”

Ifs Understanding Can Do Ego Insight Surrender Doers

Author:Rajneesh

“Buddha says if you surrender the ego, if you surrender yourself, you come in a harmony with the law and everything starts happening on its own. You have but to surrender. If you are ready to disappear, you will be full of the law and the law will take care.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The reality is just the opposite: the master does nothing. It is in your becoming a disciple that the whole mystery lies. It is in your surrender of the ego that the whole search comes to an authentic point. It is in putting your mind aside. That is what sannyas is: an authentic discipleship. It means putting your mind aside. You have lived according to your mind up to now. If that is fulfilling, then there is no need for anybody to become a sannyasin.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mind Body Purpose Certain Found Greater Ego Connected Service To Others Mind Body

Author:Wayne Dyer

“How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“If you are going towards the easy, the ego starts dying. And when there is no ego left, you have arrived to your reality - the right, the truth. And truth and right have to be natural. Easy means natural; you can find them without any effort. Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.”

Ifs Mean Reality Left Easy Natural Effort Dying Ego

Author:Rajneesh

“The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.”

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Author:Thaddeus Golas

“Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.”

Ifs Results Ego Chiefs Strategist

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Self Reason Existence Doubt Dying Objects Ego Rounds Oneself Seeking Disappear Arise Fear Not Seers Doubt And Fear

Book:Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.”

Ifs Writing Believe Enough Ego If You Believe Believe You Can

Author:David Brin

“Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.”

“People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.”

People Ifs Want Life Desire Left Simple Ego Simplicity Inner Peace Remove Simple Life Simple Things Simple Living Being At Peace

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.”

Ifs Today Freedom Inspire Ego Tonight Enlightened Clinging Vanquish

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of unity and plenitude. As every experience emanates from the non-experience which is our real being, the me also bears the scent of its source. This remembering is awakened through those moments of desirelessness and in deep sleep.”

Ifs Way Real Moments Remember Sleep Source Bears Ego Unity Scent Remembrance Awakened Emanate Deep Sleep Plenitude

Book:I Am

Source: I Am