The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.
Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.
Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.
I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that. . . . Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture. '
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
Happiness is egotistical.
You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.
I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.
Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?
Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.
I am egotistical, that I won't deny. . . I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good. . . but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.
When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
You have to love yourself, not in an egotistical way, but if you love yourself, everyone else will love you.
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent.
