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"See, I dont know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea."
"The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's."
"Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them."
"One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid."
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
"Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego."
"Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available."
"You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!"
"All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only."
"When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul"
"Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it."
"I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all."
"When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us."
"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
"Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego."
"Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist."
"I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen."
"You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without."
"Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain."
"Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me."
