“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.” YearsTwoDifferentCharacterThreeWiseJourneyEventsEgoDistanceVersionsLeisureLooking BackTravelerDistractedImpatientTeaseDifferent CharactersAlter Ego Author:Jonathan Raban
“It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.” ImportantWiseShareInformationEgo Author:Phil Ramone
“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.” StruggleWiseEgoWeakIntelligentConstantConstant Struggle Author:Hamza Yusuf
“To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.” PersonsSelfJoyConsciousnessWiseMeditationPureEgoDiscriminationBlissBondagePractiseWise Person Author:Adi Shankara
“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.” PeopleHas BeensStillsTwoSpiritualVoiceWiseHeardEgoGuidesSelf DiscoveryHystericalCalculatingSpiritual Beings Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.” YearsSometimesHomeMotherWiseEgoDaughterMaking MoneyAllowingEditorsArrangementsOur Daughter Author:Will Allison
“In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.” KnowsWisdomSpiritualMovingWiseLandPrideQuietConflictEgoRefusePeacefulRealmsArroganceAggressiveCitizenshipCompetitivenessPretencePride And Arrogance Author:Mooji
“Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.” WantDoeDesireEnergyPoorPowerfulRichWiseEgoBreathsIgnorantWretchedAbsorbing Author:Rajneesh