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Ego Quotes by Pema Chodron
- The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
- You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things…
- I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person…
- Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from…
- There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those…
- All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
- Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
- Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you…
- It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even…
- Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our…
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- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this… — Afrika Bambaataa
- A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to… — Roseanne Barr
- The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by. — David Beckham
- If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- 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
- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno