"I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view."
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"Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed"
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"Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated."
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"Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego."
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"Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help.""
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"The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy."
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"Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window."
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"Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo."
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"Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!"
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"The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds."
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"Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought."
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"Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft"
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"You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse."
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"The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!"
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"Out of Mahat comes universal egoism."
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"Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way."
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"One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total."
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"When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will"
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"We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego."
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"I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff"
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