“I was not a poet. I felt no consolation in this knowledge, but only a red anger that evolution could allow such sensitivity and such inadequacy to coexist in the same mind. In one ego, my ego, screaming like a hare caught in a gin.”
Daniel Martin (1977)
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“Ego=1/Knowledge
" More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.”
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“The ego rules the mind because it links the “I” with the mind and body”
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Book II, 2008
Context: The ego rules the mind because it links the “I” with the mind and body. If the “I,” which is another name for the self, were not identified with the mind and body, the ego would have no power. Self-study [svadhyaya], therefore, is the set of practices that investigates the nature of the self to discover its origin. When the origin is found to be separate from the body, the ego loses the battle and peace is attain. (Bk. II, Sutra 1, p.5)
Source: Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass, 1977, p.15
art:21 interview: "CREMASTER 3—on location at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY" http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/barney/clip1.html
Ego: (p.49)
The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996
“I like the moment when I break a man's ego”