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"Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
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"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."

"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."

"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."

"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."

"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."

"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."

"My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart."
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"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

"The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."

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

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations."

"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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