"A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego."
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"Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego."
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"...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion."
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"Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering."
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"Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion."
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"The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness."
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"The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself."
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"Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego."
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"On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood."
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"The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification."
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"Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there."
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"Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place."
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"Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel."
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"A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos."
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"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over."
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"Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it."
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"In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else."
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"If you don't have an ego, you're a wino."
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"I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego."
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"Personalities don't love. They want something."
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