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title: "4 Reality Ego Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/ego-is-a-social-institution-with-no-physical-reality-the-ego-is/)

[Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/)

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> [“In reality, however, every ego, so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/in-reality-however-every-ego-so-far-from-being-a-unity-is-in-the/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/ego-is-a-social-institution-with-no-physical-reality-the-ego-is-2/)

[Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/)

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> [“My Ego said that I was a victim of circumstance. My Higher Self said that I create my own reality. My Ego…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-mccrae/my-ego-said-that-i-was-a-victim-of-circumstance-my-higher-self-said/)

[James McCrae](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-mccrae/)

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