Alan Watts Quotes, Rejection Quotes, Ego Quotes

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

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Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

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Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

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I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

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The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

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Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.

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In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

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Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

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This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.

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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

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The ego is a fascinating monster.

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This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

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The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

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Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

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