"To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it."
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"This rascal ego must be obliterated."
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"Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up."
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"This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness."
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"This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body."
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"There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail."
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"It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you."
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"The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?"
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"Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes."
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"The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation."
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"I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else."
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"You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause I'm doin' all these things, but I'm not satisfied. I still have that feeling like, "Who am I? Who am I to have an ego? Who am I to change up and act like some Hollywood character?" Technically, in the grand scheme of things, I haven't done anything."
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"This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't."
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"It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love."
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"What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego."
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"When the ego dies, the soul awakes."
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"I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage."
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"When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously."
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"I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had."
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"But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it."
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