Ego Psychology Quotes

#1. The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

Robert Thurman

#2. The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

James Hollis

#3. Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

Pau Gasol

#4. The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Idries Shah

#5. Emptiness and the not-"I" is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#6. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. Most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Idries Shah

#8. Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

Brad Blanton

#9. The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.

Loch Kelly

#10. Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Penelope Keith

#11. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Flattery:
One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Idries Shah

#12. Saying of the Prophet
The Judge
A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

Idries Shah

#13. But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

C. G. Jung

#14. The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Idries Shah

#15. For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Idries Shah

#16. Breathe through your eyes," she said. "I'm sorry?" "It relaxes the muscles. It's called pranayama.

Dan Brown

#17. When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...", how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive.

Ruth A. Hawkins

#18. The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Carl Jung

#19. The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

C. G. Jung

#20. Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

Sepp Blatter

#21. Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

Saurabh Sharma

#22. I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

James C. Collins

#23. You don't kill your ego. You overcome it by loving other people. And for that you need both ego and super-ego.

Robin Sacredfire

#24. Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

Idries Shah

#25. When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Idries Shah

#26. Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

Richard Rohr

#27. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.

Oli Anderson

#28. A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

Idries Shah

#29. Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo.

Karen Marie Moning

#30. If the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime. That is clear. The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#31. A person with a big ego usually knows very little.

Eraldo Banovac

#32. A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

Brad Blanton

#33. Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche