Quotes by Ego The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality. Terence McKenna egoproblempersonality Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?" the Swami was asked. "Yes", answered the Swami. "And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes. Swami Vivekananda egorealattitude I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff Swami Vivekananda egomindstuff The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] Swami Vivekananda egorootsthinking There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail. Swami Vivekananda storesegolong This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. Swami Vivekananda universalegobody 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. Swami Vivekananda egocausesbody This rascal ego must be obliterated. Swami Vivekananda rascalsego To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it. Swami Vivekananda egogiving-upworld We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego. Swami Vivekananda egobodythinking When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will Swami Vivekananda egosubstancebrain My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness. Terence McKenna enlightenmentegoideas I am a man for whom the outside world exists. Theophile Gautier egomenworld Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. Terence McKenna psychedeliccreatingego Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle miseryfaultsego But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth. Thomas Ligotti egolandneeds One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself. Thomas Metzinger egotunnelsinteresting The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it. Thomas Metzinger egopersonslooks Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results. Thomas Merton egomenbelieve No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. Thomas S. Monson true-joyegomen«5859606162636465666768»
