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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."

"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."

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

"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"

"Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief."

"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."

"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."

"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."

"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."

"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."

"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."

"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."

"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
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