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"The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One."
"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive."
"The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible."
"Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable."
"I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego."
"But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention."
"I don't have that much of an ego where it's like "How dare you, you can't do something without me.""
"But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering."
"The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge."
"The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego."
"The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today."
"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."
"I think it's the ego in us that screws us up."
"The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued."
"When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do."
"When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego."
"So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness."
"How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes."
"The Ego ages... the Soul evolves... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!"
"My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness."
