"The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself."
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"Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness."
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"My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer."
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"Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo."
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""Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it."
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"Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love"
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"...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'."
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"The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious."
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"Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life."
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"Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego."
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"The ego wants to want more than it wants to have."
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"When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies."
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"I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force."
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"As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met."
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"The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego."
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"Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level."
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"To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch."
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"The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests."
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"I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized."
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"And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO"
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