"The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside."
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"The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'"
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"Renunciation means death of false ego."
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"There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego."
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"The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality."
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"It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world."
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"In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself."
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"The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces"
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"The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die."
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"Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth."
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"Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment."
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"Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?"
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"Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure."
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"The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment."
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"Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness."
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"The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying."
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"So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives."
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"For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment."
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"When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego."
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"The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside."
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