Quotes About Ego

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.

Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.

How does the personality come into being? By memory. By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary, without past and future, and your personality dissolves.

You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the 'I' is not.

Happiness is never your own; it is where the "I" is not.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

The human mind is a swirl of activity mostly centered around self preservation and self justification.

What makes us miserable, what causes us to be in conflict with one another? It's our insistence on our particular view of things. Our view of what we deserve or want, our view of right and wrong, our view of self, of other, of life, of death. But views are just views. They're not ultimate truth.

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

The human ego must face the Dionysian reality, and therefore a great work of self-transformation lies ahead of it. For Nietzsche was right in saying that the Apollonian preserves, the Dionysian destroys, self-consciousness.

It is thus a general law of the ego not strong enough to die, and therefore not strong enough to live, that its consciousness of both its own inner world and the external world is sealed with the sign of negation;13 and through negation life and death are diluted to the point that we can bear them. "The result is a kind of intellectual acceptance of what is repressed, though in all essentials the repression persists.

Los Pilotos tienen un concepto muy exagerado de su propia importancia, pensó D'mahl. ¿Y en qué los convierte eso? - Tres... dos... uno... En seres humanos.

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Kendini çok be?endi?in halde kusurlar?n? bilmedi?in gibi, meziyetlerinin de fark?na varmad?n. Genellikle sert, duygusuz ve bencil göründün. Bu özelliklerinde huysuz bir çocu?a benziyordun.

Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?

Those who achieved power were satisfied so long as they could merely retain it, and advertise it uncritically in the conventionally self-assertive manners.

Or maybe her smile has nothing to do with me, and I'm not really the center of the universe. Unlikely, but possible.

Ludzie maj? pot??n? potrzeb?, ?eby czu? si? lepszymi od innych. Niewa?ne, kim s?, musz? mie? kogo?, kto by?by gorszy od nich.

je?eli kto? zaczyna zdanie od s?owa "zawsze", to znaczy, ze straci? kontakt ze ?wiatem, i ?e mówi o sobie

Asher has learned that people have a powerful need to feel superior to others. It doesn't matter who they are – they have to find someone who's beneath them.

the island represents our earliest, most primal state prior to socialization, when the ego has already individualized enough to attain a certain level of self-awareness, but without yet having entered into complete, fulfilling relationships with its surroundings

It goes without saying that the method of melting the ice of our egos into water, as they originally are, lies in samadhi.