The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all… — Tom Chappell Copy Share Image
LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in… — Crowder Copy Share Image
“This ‘prakruti’ (relative self, made of inherent traits) seems to be alive, but it is not alive in reality. Whatever interactions or… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The breath is a powerful toolit creates a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind, and connects the mind and the body.… — Carmen Harra Copy Share Image
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“You need nothing more than the experience you are having right now. It is enough. It is plenty. It is perfect just… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
This business is a tightrope between ultimate ego and absolute devastation. You could lose. You could get knocked out. You could get… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole… — Allen Iverson Copy Share Image
A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
The "18/40/60" rule to happiness: At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them. By age 40, they… — Daniel Amen Copy Share Image
Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
A lot of people in Hollywood are on that ego trip. They think they're more than somebody else. I've told a lot… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I became a master of disguise and could play the straight man down to a tee, sometimes over-compensating by getting into fights… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
![“...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this…” quote by Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e10/ramana-maharshi-915_bliss_bliss-is-not-something-to-be-got-on-the_565847.jpg)
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