Ego proverbs

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◆ Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

- Rainer Maria Rilke99

◆ 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-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.

- Tennessee Williams99

◆ Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

- John Lennon99

◆ Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

- Terence McKenna99

◆ The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

- George Clooney99

◆ I would prefer not to.

- Herman Melville99

◆ If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

- Ch?gyam Trungpa99

◆ There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

- Criss Jami99

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

- John O'Donohue99

◆ I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

- Vladimir Nabokov99

◆ I need a Caution: Slippery When Wet sign, because I just spilled my ego all over the floor.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

- Deepak Chopra99

◆ A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don't have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed.

- Gina Lake99