"All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world."
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"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."
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"When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves."
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"To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change."
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"Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel."
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"Awareness and ego cannot coexist."
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"Never underestimate the ego of a politician."
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"Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact."
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"We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul."
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"When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything."
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"The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!"
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"You came here with something to do. You are part of a universal consciousness, and there are no accidents in it. In your true essence - not the false self, not the ego part of you, but in the true essence of who you are - you are infinite and you have something very profound to accomplish while you're here. Otherwise you wouldn't be here."
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"As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate."
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"Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are."
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"I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it."
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"Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents."
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"But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id."
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"In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world."
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"When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually."
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"The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others."
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