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

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Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

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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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fall Quotes , Ego Quotes

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

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After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

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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 world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

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All troubles come to an end when the ego dies

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To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

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Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

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Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

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

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Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

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The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

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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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