If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net
Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you. . . Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeing horseman in the field of battle.
If your love leads to misery, it was from the ego. If your love leads to a beautiful benediction, a blessedness, it was from nature. If your friendship, even your meditation, leads you to misery, it was from the ego. If it were from nature everything would fit in, everything would become harmonious. Nature is wonderful, nature is beautiful, but you have to work it out.
Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.
We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.
When one is working out a problem. . . life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.
When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.
With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.
The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.
Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.
Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.