“What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.” NeededEgoStrategyConstantUnmasking Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.” IfsIdeasSelfPaintingNeededEgoSakeSelf RealizationRealizationStem Author:Joseph Beuys
“There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.” KnowsWayNeedsValuesOpinionNeededEgoStandingCriticsFinalsSecureAnalysisApologyEntourage Author:Johnny Carson
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.” WantLoveNeedsDreamAttentionNeededEgoAddictionMutualIndispensableI Hate YouChokeFree Time Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Have you been drinking this morning? How did you miss me? I swear I’ve fought old women with better reflexes. (Takeshi) The fact you fight old women tells me just how rusty you’ve become. What? Your ego needed the boost and they were the only ones you could find you could beat? (Savitar)” FactsFightingMorningMissingNeededEgoBeatsDrinkingSwearOld WomanBoostReflexesMiss MeSavitarYou Miss Me Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.” KnowsBeautifulTaughtNeededDemandEgoPerfectionLet MeExpectedExperimentsTendernessGiftedDisrespect Book:Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. We cannot compromise with it. It is what it is, it has been what it has been, and it will be what it has been. So it doesn't change. What is needed is that we have to change. So, what is the truth? Truth is that you are not this body, this mind; you are not these emotions, intellect or conditionings. Nor you are ego. So what are you ? You are the pure Spirit.” LoveMindHas BeensWisdomBodySpiritEmotionMeditationNeededTruth IsPureEgoYogaIntellectCompromiseWellnessBowsSeekersConditioningIt Is What It Is Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is contained. It is not a long journey from you to God, it is a single-step journey. It is not a gradual phenomenon; it is not that slowly slowly, gradually you come to the divine. It is a quantum leap! One moment you were in darkness and the next moment all is light. All that is needed is to put the ego aside.” MindLongWholeMomentsLightNextStepsDarknessJourneyDivineNeededEgoSurrenderPhenomenonLeapQuantumLong JourneySingle StepQuantum Leap Author:Rajneesh
“The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.” PeopleGivingPurposeChanceCommonExistenceBecomingNeededEgoTasksOvercomingCoachingGoodsFacultyJoiningGoods And ServicesCenteredness Author:E. F. Schumacher