"Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net"
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"Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic."
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"The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine."
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"If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat."
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"Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory."
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"If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over."
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"Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos."
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"What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks."
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"Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution."
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"Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain."
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"When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
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"The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty."
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"Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them."
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"Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world."
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"The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole."
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"Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity."
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"The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God."
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"The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness."
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"I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation."
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"Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego."
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