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“The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.”

Way Love Long Feelings Love Is Path Easier Ego Way Of Love Path Of Love

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be tense, you will remain tense. How to relax? Is there any way to relax? There is no way unless understanding is there. If you understand the nature of the world, the nature of the very existence, then who are you to worry, and why be in a worried state continuously?”

Ifs World Way Mind States Understanding Existence Worry Possibility Ego Worried Relax Relaxation Tense

Author:Rajneesh

“The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.”

Way Mean Persons Whole Christian Dies Prayer Sacrifice Dying Divine Becoming Ego Universal Jew Disappear Surrender Trust In God Emphasis Altars Praying To God God Prayer Surrender To God

Author:Rajneesh

“Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless. Any goal, and you can`t be simple. Any goal and you can`t be herenow. Any goal and the desire will rock you. Any goal, and you are on the way, again moving - you cannot enjoy this moment, the grace of this moment, the benediction of herenow.”

Way Moments Moving Life Is Desire Enjoy Goal Simple Grace Crazy Rocks Ego Unnatural Benediction Life Is Simple Crazy Life

Author:Rajneesh

“Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.”

Men Way Mean Art Whole Dies Born Talking Steps Dying Ego Approach Art Is Method Bounds Art Of Living Afraid Of Death Afraid Of Life

Author:Rajneesh

“Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because to will means to keep yourself separate from existence. It is a little subtle, but try to feel it. The moment you will it means you are always willing against things as they are. You want them to be some other way.”

Men Way Want Feels Trying Mind Mean Littles Moments Names Existence Willing Ego Subtle Will Power

Author:Rajneesh

“The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.”

Way Want Firsts May Self Growth Grace Ego Apocalypse Flexibility Along For The Ride

Book:2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

“...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.”

“If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of unity and plenitude. As every experience emanates from the non-experience which is our real being, the me also bears the scent of its source. This remembering is awakened through those moments of desirelessness and in deep sleep.”

Ifs Way Real Moments Remember Sleep Source Bears Ego Unity Scent Remembrance Awakened Emanate Deep Sleep Plenitude

Book:I Am

Source: I Am

“In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.”

World Way Ideas Whole Hands Eye Turns Left Clear Focus Mines Arms Ego Judgment Decided Musical Debate Whole World Theme Steady Fitting Good Judgment Alter Ego Steady Hands

Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.”

Way Self Ego Messages Self Worth Boards Reviews Not Interested Improving My Self Worth

Author:Kate Levering

“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

“Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.”

Way Stuff Seeing Ego Shining Clarity Emptiness Brilliance

Author:Douglas Harding

“There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.”

Knows Way Mind Helping Care Know How Greater Imagine Ego Currents Take Care Surrender Within You

Author:Robert Adams

“A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it”

Way Doe Character Ego Allowing Stomach

Author:Matthew Barney

“Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.”

Way Littles I Can Courses Bits Too Much Ego Little Bit Obsessive

Author:Simon Cowell

“Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.”

People Ifs Way Important Helping Loses Music Ego Standing Important Things Caught Helping Others Servant Guarantees Caught Up

Author:Eric Clapton

“The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.”

Way Feels Mind Ideas Real Self Facts Wonder Expression Ego Conscious Concepts Burden Best Way Bother Coming Out Metaphysical Theoretical Self Conscious Unborn Restlessness Buddha Nature

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.”

Way Materials Ego Concern Absolutes Mental Health Possession Genuine Balanced Obsessive Identification Pragmatic Material Possessions

Author:Fritjof Capra

“True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which then makes you want to reach out and touch others in a way that expresses self and really evolves our communities and our world. Certainly, we can't do that unless we activate ourselves first. That's why, for me, emergence is the shift from ego to essence. That is so important.”

World Way Want Firsts Important Self Purpose Turns Community Path Ego Essence Creator Deeper Evolve Our World Purpose Of Life Reach Out Awakened Our Community Emergence Activate

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.”

World Way Want Sea Rocks Ego Engagement Hydra

Book:As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice

Source: As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice

“Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.”

Way Seems Ego Frail Formidable

Author:Alan Cohen

“Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.”

People Way Able Ego Complexity

Author:Chris Brogan

“And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.”

Way Bigs Games Deals Streets Ego Eating Drinking One Way Diets Worth It Coke Macs Diet Coke Big Mac

Author:Ricky Williams

“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

“If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you - it is suicidal.”

Ifs Way Whole Beautiful Happiness Life Is Force Effort Existence Meditation Holy Ego Deserve Misery Destroyed Suicidal Make You Happy Life Is A Gift Happiness Love

Author:Rajneesh

“Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.”

“We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.”

Way Persons Self Facts Dream Wanted Desire Responsibility Tree Ego Who We Are Attributes Dread Good Person Very Deep Loops Hallucinations Everest Mount Everest

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.”

Ifs Way Feels Beautiful Spiritual Five Growing Minutes Humility Sweet Flower Gratitude Offers Ego Conquer Spiritual Life Five Minutes One Minute Beautiful Flower Gratitude To God

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“'I am' is nothing but another name for the ego. Now you will be getting into trouble. If the ego is convinced that the only way is to drop the ego, then who is going to drop whom? And how? It will be like pulling yourself up by your own shoestrings. You will look just silly. Watch each word that you use. 'I am' is nothing but the ego.”

Ifs Way Looks Use Names Watches Trouble Ego Convinced Silly Pulling

Author:Rajneesh

“It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must attain it. Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened, in new and subtle ways.”

Ifs Way Whole Problem Fall Loses Effort Struggle Ego Fruit Destroyed Thrown Subtle Destroying Ripe Paradoxical Ripe Fruit Ripeness

Author:Rajneesh

“Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.”

Way Ideas Energy Lord Fields Ego Practicals Fullness Egotism Overboard

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination.”

Way Should Trying Mind Heart Long Self Spiritual Ego Devil Shadow Roots Surrender Egotism Illumination

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.”

Men Way Has Beens Made Self Together Existence Consciousness Psychology Source Conflict Ego Reflection Conscious Originals Circles Former Urges Paradox Self Reflection Individuation

Book:The Collected Works

Source: The Collected Works

“True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.”

Way Kind Self Reality Social Divine Ego Normal One Way Servant Sanity Establishment Rebirth Dissolution

Author:R. D. Laing

“Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.”

Way Mean Self Problem Form Games Brain Study Fit Ego Proof Chess Checks Locals Analysis Uncomfortable Sensitive Good Way Correspondence Gymnasiums

Author:Peter Abelard

“We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for heart attacks on the way to getting their pictures in Fortune or anorexic models suffering slow starvation on their way to getting their pictures in Vogue. Protecting ego is the general case.”

Way Looks Heart Body Suffering Cases Higher Ego Survival Models Assuming Fortune Sake Executives Starvation Overweight Vogue Heart Attack Precedence Anorexics

Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

“Don't let your ego get in the way of your success.”

Way Ego

Author:Tony Horton

“I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity that's sitting there in the franchise right now gets pushed aside, I think the whole thing could be re-tooled. I think it's the type of franchise that has years in it, and has lots of legs.”

Thinking Way Years Kind Whole Type Right Now Ego Elements Sitting Legs Destroyed Vanity

Author:Joe Flanigan

“Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”

Way Humans Ego Reactions Collectives Dissolving

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

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

“Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.”

Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means ‘I AM’), I AM is the way and the truth and the life–but the ego says ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that,’ thus attaching itself only to a small portion of the Vastness. (62)”

Way Mean Self States Christ Ego Portions Hebrew Vastness Yahweh Gospel Of John

Author:Ravi Ravindra

“Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.”

Way Heart Long Broken Ego Patterns Frightened Shore Surprising Stubborn Predictable

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your way. It is only your ego mind that is fearful. When you surrender to spirit and listen to the voice of your deeper intelligence, you free yourself from fear and release the obstacles your ego has created.”

Way Mind Spirit Force Voice Levels Situation Struggle Ego Obstacles Deeper Surrender Release Fearful Unfolding Free Yourself

Author:Deepak Chopra

“As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.”

Way Self Ego Illusion Connections Driven Empowering Contemplating Holistic Separateness

Author:Wayne Dyer

“If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.”

Ifs Way Mind Humans Self Beautiful Language Causes Imagination Ego Empowering Collectives Dominant Fulfilling Psychedelic Human Imagination Enzymes

Book:Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

Source: Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

“In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.”

“If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.”

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