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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Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

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There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.

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Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.

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self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

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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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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

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The ego is a fascinating monster.

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To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

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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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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

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The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

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Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

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When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

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If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

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I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.

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Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

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Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.

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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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