"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."
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"Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness ."
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"If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge."
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"Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware."
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"We have a mind, but we are the consciousness within the body and mind. I'm in my body but I am the eternal soul full of knowledge and bliss, unborn and undying. And the natural quality of the soul, uncovered from the ego and all our misconceptions, is unconditional love for the all-beautiful Lord."
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"That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self."
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"These are planes of consciousness, and I think human beings exist on two planes of consciousness, the soul and the ego."
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"The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend."
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"A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world."
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"Pride that you express to other people is probably ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride. Pride of self is understanding that life is glorious, and that it 's an honor to be here."
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"U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both."
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"Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine."
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"The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down."
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"To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important."
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"To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?"
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"Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche"
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"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation."
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"I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much."
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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
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"What will the world be quite overturned when you die?"
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