Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course,… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner 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
The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man… — Jodie Marsh Copy Share Image
"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.” — John Reader Copy Share Image
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego,… — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market… — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As… — Tsultrim Allione 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“[...] 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
![“[...] Essence simply enjoys and commits attention and love to whatever is. In fact, committing attention to anything that is present results in enjoyment. The ego enjoys so little because it commits attention to what isn't present and to what it doesn't have, and suffers over that, instead of…” quote by Gina Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/gina-lake-20210_desire_essence-simply-enjoys-and-commits-attent_1977160.jpg)
