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“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.”

Way Giving Doe Impossible Ego Patient Reactions One Way Analysis Psychoanalysis

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

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

“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

“With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.”

Thinking Left Impossible Ego Understood Philosophical Abolition Aloof

Book:Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

Source: Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

“I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Years Kind Two Suffering Poverty Five Impossible Ego Disease Destruction Misery Eight Dumb Uncertainty Degenerates Uranium Great Year Good Years

Author:Louis C. K.

“For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.”

People Writing Years Firsts Has Beens Two Real Ends Matter Enough Together Impossible Fit Ego Extraordinary Blow Ugly Telling The Truth Shameful

Author:Louise Brooks

“They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.”

People May Two Ends Whole Fighting Hurt Impossible Honest Ego Very Good Whole Life Being Honest The End Of The Day Just Being Good Friend Quarrels Getting Hurt Very Good Friends

Author:Ai Yazawa

“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.”

Ifs Want Needs Together Simple Love Is Clear Impossible Ego Shadow And Love Misery Bounds Jealousy Jealous Being Jealous Jealous Love Working Things

Author:Rajneesh

“Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.”

Light Political Meditation Impossible Conflict Ego Ambition Asking Disappear Absence Calming Ego Trip

Author:Rajneesh

“When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.”

Ifs Impossible Ego Weakness Strength And Weakness Nothing Is Impossible

Author:Radhanath Swami

“In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti attitude, ego never becomes strong, never comes to a point of integration from where it can be thrown. It is never ripe. So in the East it is very difficult to dissolve the ego, almost impossible.”

Strong Difficult Attitude Impossible Ego East Thrown Integration Ripe

Author:Rajneesh

“That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.”

Happens Jesus Sex Loses Love Is Talking Meditation Impossible One Thing Goes On Ego And Love Godliness God Is Love

Author:Rajneesh