“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
“In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.” IfsWayBelieveTwoDifferentCertainTypeEgoThreatDuesInsecurityTwo WaysInsecurity And Fear Author:Radhanath Swami
“Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.” WayGivingDoeImpossibleEgoPatientReactionsOne WayAnalysisPsychoanalysis Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud