“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?” IfsWayGamesSpeakInterestingOur LivesSucceedEgoElementsFunctionAthleteClarityRemoveAthletics Author:Garth Stein
“Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.” MeanArtSoulSelfLife IsTurnsActorsOpportunitySpaceActingOur LivesExpressionHolyActivityConversationEgoCapacityLettersTheaterSacredAvailableCelebrateArtisticMealsDimensionsTime And SpaceTransformingMundaneSelf ExpressionAuthentic SelfArt LifeSacred Art Author:Gabrielle Roth
“In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.” IfsKnowsMenWorldTwoHandsAsksEmotionOur LivesThis WorldEgoIntelligentPossessionSignificantDay To DayCompelledDay LifeDay To Day LifeUpper Hand Author:Sri Chinmoy
“One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.” HumansChildrenRealizingSimpleHalfOur LivesWifeSubjectsHusbandEgoPatternsSeekingListsHuman LifeNovelistsTragicGrandmotherShadeConventionalPullingSweetnessAnguishHusband And WifeHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsAffectionatePulling AwayLoving Husband Book:Not Under Forty Source: Not Under Forty
“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.” WayHeartHas BeensStatesSpiritualPathOur LivesJourneyChildhoodEmotionalMaterialsDevelopmentBirthLessonsEgoAnd LoveForgottenSeekingPossessionGuidesBitterFrustrationDestinationInwardToilFacilitateHappiness And LoveTrue PowerMemento Author:R. Carlos Nakai
“Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.” KnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsBelievePersonsMadeImportantHelpingValuesRealizingDestinyOur LivesPrideEgoRootsHungerSignificantIntenseSignificanceOxygenOur DestinyGod ImageHelping Each Other Author:R. C. Sproul
“Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.” GivingHumansSelfHappensEarthMovingHeavenCausesHuman BeingsLove IsBreakOur LivesMovementEgoSkinsCarrieSelf CenteredWithout LoveBreak OutHeaven On Earth Author:Huston Smith
“We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.” NeedsWritingDoeSelfMightDesireCulturePathOur LivesBearsActivityEgoAncientAwakeningCoreOur SocietyPathwaysReduction Author:Natalie Goldberg
“We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.” MindHeartTogetherLyingOur LivesSeeingListeningEgoCaughtConnectedCaught UpWrong Things Author:Alyson Noel
“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.” IfsMindMadeMightDiesLeftLosesOur LivesPersonalityEgoYogaIncludingPainfulHatedDelusionAbandonedRejectedMisunderstoodDeprivedLeft AloneGreatest FearLove Never DiesOur Greatest Fear Author:Susan Mitchell
“Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It dethrones the ego from the center of our lives and puts others there, breaking down the carapace of the selfishness that holds us back from an experience of the sacred. And it gives us ecstasy, broadening our perspectives and giving us a larger, enhanced vision.” GivingMeanHas BeensFoundCompassionVisionOur LivesPerspectiveEgoEnlightenmentSacredSelfishnessEcstasyBreaking DownGreat Faith Book:The Spiral Staircase Source: The Spiral Staircase
“The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.” BelieveProblemOur LivesEgoEgo And Soul Author:Wayne Dyer
“Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?” Has BeensSoulResponsibilityOur LivesSourceHonorCallingEgoEssenceSirens Book:Inspire! What Great Leaders Do Source: Inspire! What Great Leaders Do
“God, or a source of divinity, put together a map for our lives. That map includes opportunities-not outcomes-but opportunities. And those opportunities are contracts [or] agreements-not that our ego or personality made, but our soul did.” MadeSoulTogetherOpportunityOur LivesSourcePersonalityEgoLuckOutcomesDivinityAgreementMapsContracts Author:Caroline Myss