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“Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.”

Feels Feelings Happiness Answers Loneliness Creation Buddhism Ego Overcoming Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.”

Thinking Giving Important Ego Yoga Overcoming Karma Unhappy Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.”

Self Christian Evil Jesus Ego Overcoming Absolutes Tyranny Defence Adherence Self Defence

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“Saying “I'll try” means our soul isn't really in it. We tell ourselves “I'll try” when our inflated egos won't come clean and admit that we're actually not all that determined. We can't overcome obstacles with the words “I'll try.” As Yoda, the philosopher in the Star Wars movies, says, “Do, or do not. There is no 'try.”

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Book:Choose to Lose: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Solution

Source: Choose to Lose: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Solution

“The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.”

Long Hard Whole Reality Pleasure Principles Succeed Ego Overcoming Method Instinct Starting Educate Persist Organisms Employed

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.”

Mind Helping Buddhism Ego Overcoming Meaningful Endless Grasping

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.”

People Way Kind School Found Laughing Stage Fronts Balance Ego High School Overcoming Performing Shy Reserved Making People Laugh Shyness Ego Trip

Author:Steve Martin

“The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.”

Men Real Existence Principles Ego Overcoming Bounds Opposition Free Man

Book:On Being Human

Source: On Being Human

“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.”

People Giving Purpose Chance Common Existence Becoming Needed Ego Tasks Overcoming Coaching Goods Faculty Joining Goods And Services Centeredness

Author:E. F. Schumacher