“The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.” PeopleArtistSongEgoSingingOppositesJudgement Author:Romare Bearden
“I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.” IfsWritingOrderEgoOpposites Author:Rob Chapman
“In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.” IdeasWholePracticeMeditationLike YouEgoYogaEssenceOppositesWestEastProductiveMore MoneyEarningDissolvingMeditation And Yoga Author:Karan Bajaj
“I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big festival, if I'm about to get clobbered in a political debate, if I'm trying to impress someone I have a crush on. It's the opposite of openness, letting go, allowing deep feelings to express themselves. For me, that comes from playing music and from kissing.” IfsFeelsTryingFeelingsBigsPoliticalBandLetting GoKissingEgoOppositesDebateVulnerableCrushGood TimesAllowingOpennessJealousImpressThreatenedFestivalsPlaying MusicPolitical DebatesDeep FeelingGet JealousI Have A CrushI Get Jealous Author:Greg Saunier
“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” LoveMaySaidTimeHumanityOrderPowerSuccessfulCoupleEgoOppositesRoseChaosKillingTemptationOur TimeTortureBeing SuccessfulMinoritiesPermitDeniedOfferingCommandmentsNaziThey SaidPersecutionKey To SuccessRoad To SuccessWithout LoveBreedingFallacyImposing Book:The Magus Source: The Magus
“Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.” MindSelfMotivationResultsHumilityEgoPaperAnxietyOppositesErrorsCalmWork Out Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“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.” IfsNeedsMindMeanDoeWholeRealityLyingMysteryMastersBecomingEgoOppositesSurrenderDiscipleFulfillingDiscipleship Author:Rajneesh
“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.” PeopleLifeRealSelfProblemTruthLife IsConsciousnessHealthyEgoDeterminationTasksOppositesUltimateOneselfInsightTricksObjectivesDevelopingOver ItCriticizeTendernessSubjectivePolicemenObjectivitySentimentalitySoftnessStoicClarifyingSeedlingsUprooting Author:Kenny Smith
“All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.” IfsTryingMindKindLittlesEyeUnderstandingImaginationMy OwnPovertyIssuesDoubtBearsProveEgoEnlightenmentResourcesTestsOppositesAccomplishCriticalSignificantHis EyesSkepticismSovereignFreezePostureLinearSatori Author:Kenny Smith
“All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.” SelfPrayerPracticeMeditationActivityEgoOppositesGatheringOur PrayersMomentumStrengthening Author:U.G. Krishnamurti
“A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'” ThinkingWould BeCoursesEgoOppositesMiracleChaosCourse In Miracles Author:Marianne Williamson