"The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal."
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"If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything."
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"Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned."
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"The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club."
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"I am deeply superficial."
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"A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress."
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"If you play more than two chords, you're showing off."
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"The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it."
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"Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears."
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"The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself."
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"The mind's job is to validate what it thinks."
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"The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist."
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"When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you."
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"The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises"
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"Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player."
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"Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. Thats just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth."
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"Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself."
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"There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !"
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"Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear."
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"The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness."
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