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“Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you individualize the spirit within you through the process of observation. If you work on yourself, the progress you make radiates invisibly to others, helping them and giving them courage, which also improves the global picture. After all-your ego is a part of the world ego, and as you control it, you lessen the overall influence of the world ego while expanding the presence of truth on our planet.”

Ifs World Inspirational Giving Helping Spirit Process Progress Influence Planets Ego Dialogue Observation Developing Within You Expanding Our Planet Equitable

Book:More Love: Tender Moments

Source: More Love: Tender Moments

“The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.”

Spiritual Process Fire Development Ego Yoga Transformation Harmonious Spiritual Development Spiritual Transformation Bhakti Yoga Fire Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”

“The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.”

Giving Mind Body Light Energy Process Rooms Knowing Ready Expression Ego Negative Bases Absolutes Foundation Genuine Breathing Concentration Allowing Flood Dropping Positive Energy

Author:Marion Woodman

“In diabetes mellitus the case is as follows: the ego-organization, as it submerges in the astral and etheric realm, is so weakened that it can no longer effectively accomplish its action upon the sugar-substance. The sugar then undergoes the processes in the astral and etheric realms which should take place in the ego-organization.... From all this we see that a real healing process for diabetes mellitus can only be initiated if we are in a position to strengthen the ego-organization of the patient.”

Ifs Should Real Action Process Healing Cases Position Ego Organization Patient Scary Accomplish Substance Realms Sugar Diabetes Healing Process

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.”

“In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading, because sometimes when I'm doing something, I say, "This is great! This is fantastic! Very genius!" And 20 minutes later, I feel like a dead jellyfish. "You are a stupid a**hole. This is a piece of sh*t. Nobody will care about it."”

Feels Kind Sometimes Care Process Creative Pieces Minutes Stupid Huge Genius Ego Holes Fantastic Tyrants Creative Process Dictator Rude Mislead Jellyfish

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.”

People Needs Feels Believe Names Social Process Numbers Greater Crime Hero Safe Ego Justified True Hero

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there.”

People Stills Individual Process Consciousness Groups Ego Here And There Groups And Individuals

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.”

Mind Process Understanding Forget Cases Path Limits Ego Islam Objectives Obsession Liberation Liberating

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."”

World Way Two Order Process Ego Essentials Hey Putin Two Ways World Order Stood Up Mania Egomaniacs

Author:David Brooks

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

Mind Process Memories Ego Achievement Possession Habitual Thought Process Personal History

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.”

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.”

Wells Ends Life Is Purpose Process Dog Ego Enlightened Vicious

Book:Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships

Source: Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships

“Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism”

Thinking May Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Process Path Walking Ego Fundamentals Technique Versions Developing Subtle Materialism Deceiving Distortion Spiritual Path Strengthening

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to its own ends. The more we become conscious of the mysterious unfolding of life, the clearer it becomes that its purpose is not to fulfill the expectations of our ego.”

Ends Self Lasts Purpose Process Goal Ego Enlightenment Expectations Conscious Rewards Mysterious Unfolding

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“The people who want to be recognized as the greatest traders are probably not the greatest traders. Egos get in the way of the process. In my opinion, you never want to be the largest player in the pit.”

People Way Want Process Opinion Player Ego Pits Traders

Author:Blair Hull

“Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't — it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego.”

People Way Mean Children Age Dies Process Development Ego Threat Rate Developing Stopping Don't Change

Author:Edie Sedgwick

“You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.”

World Needs Soul Joy Three Process Information Pride Ego Useless Arrogance Defensiveness

Author:Brian Weiss

“"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B - the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."”

Want Doe Dies Process Existence Accepting Fine Ego What You Want Tension

Author:Rajneesh

“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.”

“Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.”

Real Process Evolution Ego Understood Unconscious Discovering Alchemy Metamorphosis Initiate Rapport

Author:Carl Jung

“The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.”

Soul Asks Process Enjoy Ego Accomplish Urges

Author:Doreen Virtue