Beauty could be defined simply as ‘that which pleases.’ But there is another aspect to art, and that… is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as...

…the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.

Kalau anak laki-laki itu mementingkan diri sendiri, maka itu bukan salah mereka, itu terletak pada pendidikannya, mereka dibuat demikian. Mereka mendapat semuanya, boleh semuanya dan apa yang tidak mereka ambil, itu baik untuk anak-anak perempuan.

It’s hard to imagine a more biblical definition of devil worship than an exaltation of the self, an exaltation of the ego, and a tearing down of that countercultural sign of the cross,” Moore argued....

God equals man minus ego.

The soul is trapped by the personality/ego.The personality/ego has to have a shift of a higher self-worth, then and only then, can the personality/ego can act on what the soul is saying.” Serena Jade

The greatest enemy of any person is his own ego.

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary’ level of the ego, which is...

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat....

Lo que él quería de ella era verse reflejado en el espejo de sus ojos. Unos ojos que lo observaban con admiración y adoración, y alimentaban su ego del mejor festín imaginable.

Marriage is the union of two ‘I’s to form a ‘V’. Both ‘I’s have to tilt equally to make a good ‘V’. ‘I’s standing tall can never make a ‘V’.

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

…killing Dirk, killing anybody, was not going to change anything apart from Francisco’s f***ing ego, which was already large enough to house the world’s poor twice over, with a few million bourgeoisie in the spare-room.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn’t.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you – but: what did you learn?

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

Even when we have realized oneness and nothingness, we still have our personal lives to manage, bodies to take care of, and mouths to feed, and you will know which one is yours and which...

Our ego is always like a bitch who wants to drive on a one way road in the opposite direction..

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for...

Accept Yourself. Love Yourself. Be Yourself. In the authentic you there is truth! When we are aligned with truth we are aligned with our highest good – God, Source, Higher Self, The Universe. . ....

I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn’t release her from the responsibility of...

The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail.” -Jennifer Ritchie Payette, co-author, “Modular Career Design

If somebody’s offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I’ve got the ego to say, ‘I’d like a shot at that.’

Neither apology nor kindness can demolish the wall of hatred when built, by choice, on a base of self-centeredness & from the bricks of ego!

About the Ego. There are two fields in which it operates and so, it has two meanings,

Tried a lot,but can’t find a companion like you my dear solitude. Let us shake our hands again.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living...

The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by...

Don’t the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven’t yet investigated? And don’t those people who aren’t able to escape the...

The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical.

From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life’s problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is...

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Los grandes hombres son grandes hasta que lo saben. Los santos son santos hasta que lo saben.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what...

The poor girl ws keeping that student’s letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too,...

On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!!

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway…Awakening does not feed ego’s needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn’t...

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to...

When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

Always try coercing others proves one doesn’t want to change himself.(Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).

The minimum qualifications for Grace are surrender of ego.

It is difficult indeed to understand the ego in its depth and devious ways. It is an inert entity, that is to say, it cannot know itself not can it know others; It has no...

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn’t a bad thing. It’s when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize...