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Ego Quotes
"What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher."
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"A high self-esteem can quickly deteriorate into egotism, arrogance, and an over-confidence that can backfire and turn people off."
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"No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"The ego hates losing ' even to God."
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"Whatever crimes this man had committed, they weren't as egregious as his inflated self - image."
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"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about."
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"There was an image in my mind-an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a man. It wasn't like this. It was always at night with candles flickering lazily, music filling the air with a sexy melody, and maybe a bubble bath. But no. It was infinitely better, and there was no froo froo, stereotypical scene that played out. It was incredible. Brilliant. Amazing. Indescribable, really. Like all the planets in the galaxy aligned for a perfect moment in time. As if this was the beginning of time. From now until the rest of eternity, everything finally had meaning."
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"If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!"
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"I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company."
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"He had the vanity to believe men did not like him " while men simply did not know him."
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"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
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"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong."
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"If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!"
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"As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms."
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"It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind."
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"What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation."
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"He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him-everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another."
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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!"
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"Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."
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"How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding."
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"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"
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"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
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"The ego survives only in conflict. Peace is the death of the ego."
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"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."
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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'."
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"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."
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"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."
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"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."
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"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."
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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
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"Ruthless destruction of an ego is a rather simple matter. Preserving the host deprived of an ego is a more delicate affair. How does a person engage in momentous battle with the self while simultaneously struggling to maintain their cerebral, emotive, and spiritual equilibrium in the thin air of consciousness? How assiduously does an agitated mind need to work in order to achieve the elusive degree of emotional and mental quietness that I seek?"
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