Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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John Lennon
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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JeanJacques Rousseau
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
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Deepak Chopra
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
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Terence McKenna
I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
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Jim Butcher
More Quotes By Ryan Holiday
The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get others to like him that it has the opposite...
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.
When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer...
