“Do not kill your ego and do not let your ego to kill you. Control your ego and rule over it.”
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”
Variant: You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937Related quotes
“-""Expansion to your ego, friend"".
-""At your expense"".”
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
Variant: Expansion to your ego, friend.
-At your expense.
Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director
Playboy interview (1977), as quoted in No Glass Slipper : Surviving and Conquering Painful Life Experiences (2006), p. 32
Context: To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do — bad or good.
“Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.”
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
Buddhism : The Religion of No-Religion
Context: Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 271
