Ego brings unnatural desires in you; it drives you crazy. Life is simple, but to be simple one has to be purposeless.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride.… — Mary Cunningham Agee Copy Share Image
I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Mitch," he said, "the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping.… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The stomach is the seat of all feeling. The heart is the seat of the conscience. The mind is the seat of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You never know when you're going to die in the show - it's kind of funny when you say that out of… — Alanna Masterson Copy Share Image
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
“Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he… — Russell H. Conwell Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female,… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I've seen so many beautiful, strong, talented women stifled by male ego in rooms, and I want every young woman who feels… — King Princess Copy Share Image
Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
I think, honestly, that ego makes you most vulnerable. When you are in humility you are much more comfortable, open and okay… — Mike Ness Copy Share Image
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. 2. Get mad, then get over it.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image