"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

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"My ego is the wall between you and me."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

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"I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"If you praise others you are considered a nice person, but if you praise yourself you are arrogant or nonreligious! What a society, eh? No wonder your self - esteem is low."

Maddy Malhotra, British Poet

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"The ego is not master in its own house."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one's own weight. It is to believe that 'I am Great'."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable One, I'm afraid it might befall me that my ego would be pacified and liberated only seemingly, only illusorily, that in reality it would survive and grow great, for then I would make the teaching, my discipleship, my love for you, and the community of the monks into my ego!"

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Ego, Teaching, Self, Discipleship

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

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"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."

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"The ego is not master in its own house."

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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

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"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."

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"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."

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"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

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