"I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check."
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"I think it's just recognizing that who you are is not any of the stuff that you have. It's not any of the things of the ego. Coming to that awareness is a very hard thing for most people to do - but that's an excuse. If you tell yourself it's too hard, then you won't take it on. But right now, for most people, it's almost an impossibility to do so, because they're so attached to "I am what I have"; "I am what I do"; "I am what my reputation is"; or "I am all of this material stuff.""
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"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."
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"It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos."
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"A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego."
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"When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego."
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"Where id was, there ego shall be."
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"And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke."
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"I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere."
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"But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film."
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"One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone."
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"Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies"
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"Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego."
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"The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos."
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"The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can."
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"My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus."
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"Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?"
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"Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming."
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"As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself."
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