“The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.” WantSelfMotherChallengesEgoWombWant U Book:Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose Source: Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose
“I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.” ThinkingFeelsMotherGraceAliveEgoVulnerableCourageousRemindersAvoidedLiving ThingsGrace Of GodAstonishingMother Nature Author:Brad Willis
“My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.” MenWorldWritingYearsBookWarMotherFoundStudyViolenceWrittenHe ManEgoCreatingNotesGreedFeministTensionPakistanCleaningTrunksCleaning UpLahore Author:Vandana Shiva
“A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.” FirstsMotherGuyStuffMomEgoPicksMalesBeerCrapLumpsMachoDoughnutMale Ego Author:Roseanne Barr
“Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.” AbleMotherMomEgoDaughterMother DaughterMother And DaughterMom And DaughterAlter EgoMother And Daughter RelationshipMom Daughter Author:Mary Tyler Moore
“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
“Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for ourselves. But that is far from the truth. In reality we all depend on each other and we have to help each other. The husband has to help his wife, the wife has to help the husband, the mother has to help her children, and the children are supposed to help the parents too, whether they want to or not.” WantGivingLooksKindChildrenHelpingRealityMotherParentLosesPerfectWifeDependsHusbandEgoSightTricksJustificationInterdependenceHelping Each Other Author:Gelek Rimpoche
“"The first awareness of the child comes with his ego. He becomes aware of the "I", not of the Self. Really, he becomes aware first of the "thou". The child first becomes aware of his mother. Then, reflectively, he becomes aware of himself. First he becomes aware of objects around him. Then, by and by, he begins to feel that he is separate. This feeling of separation gives the feeling of ego, and because the child first becomes aware of the ego, ego becomes a covering on the Self. "” GivingFeelsFirstsChildrenSelfFeelingsMotherAwarenessObjectsEgoSeparationCovering Author:Rajneesh
“See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.” WorldMotherFallEgo Author:Neem Karoli Baba