You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To dislike something with egoism has been referred to as renunciation (tyaag). Whereas if dislike arises for something whilst in an egoless state, that is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
“Being real doesn't mean being reckless, it means allowing La Voz Mitologica, The Mythological Voice, to speak. One does that by shutting… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction:… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
There are more women editors than people realise. I think we're more able to keep our eye on what the film needs.… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
“If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point of egoism. Must I not yield even to my interest… — Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is a leader who puts the needs of millions of others before his own, who can forgo ego and pride in… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“[...] Essence simply enjoys and commits attention and love to whatever is. In fact, committing attention to anything that is present results… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment? We say, “Well, this ____ and that ____ happened,… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are.… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it.… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just… — Anna Benson Copy Share Image
With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history,… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
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