I’m treating it as an Olympic experience where for the most part we were going to beat teams, … I knew I’d be needed somewhere between the quarterfinals and gold medal. With this Houston team,...

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.

Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight...

Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?I had a bigger hole to fill.What do you mean?A rock star is someone with a hole in his...

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos–...

Religion does not mean to worship cows. Religion is within the body of a human being. There is infinite power within this human body and manifestation of that power is Religion. In one sense it...

Winning or losing achieves the same result–change.

People talk about egos as if it were objects.

sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice...

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

In middle school, I got picked on a lot. But boy, it sure felt good to get picked, because who doesn’t like to get chosen and called out as special?

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be “memes versus...

I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one...

Your ego is everything man about yourself

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

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Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

My ego is really good. I don’t need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

I’d love to be what I have been.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and unconfined—in which he transcended his own personality and became one with everything he...

Ego got you thinkin’ you’re workin’ somebody to your advantage; you’re just playin’ yourself.

If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress. Don’t fall for it, my dear.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego’s sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you...

But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost

Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

As I was driving down Beach Blvd., I saw a building that said, “Self Storage,” and I thought, “I wonder if my ego could possibly fit in just one unit.

Whatever they may think and say about their “egoism”, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has...

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego...

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

It’s frustrating. It takes ego to get to the NFL. And your ego gets bruised a little bit when someone is taking your spot.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one’s ego except by love

To leave a man’s ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

If you like it, you’ll find a way to justify it.But if you don’t , you’ll find ways to falsify it.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love; fools just love.Fools breathe air; intellectuals (so called) breathe ego.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.