ego

“So I think the hard thing here is seeing the truth and to see the truth, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn't want to face the truth. So the smaller you can make your ego, the less condition you can make your reactions, the less des…”

“Like nothing great would be accomplished without ego. We'd never try anything new. We'd never you know, endeavor to do anything because we would, we need to feel confident.”

“The problem is not that we have an ego, and I am not one of those people who goes around saying, you gotta get rid of your ego, you gotta kill the ego. I think that's nuts. I think that, you know, even the people saying those kind of things have an ego. The pr…”

“And then you realize, well, what has been called ego doesn't need to be killed or fought or gotten rid of, or it's not who the little ego doesn't grow up to be the awakened Sense of self either. So it's a kind of a personality part, a functional part that has …”

“Many smart people who are good at life can, for a while, develop ego strengths and ego defenses, and kind of chug along and become successful, but usually they'll hit a wall at some point, whether it's in another area, like a relationship, or Become over, like…”

“That's what, in the book, I try to like, that's ego. It's like, ah, yeah, I'm gonna pass without studying. Yeah, that's the ego talking. Confidence is like, no, to me, confidence comes from work, you know, putting the work in,”

“I think it's so successful because it realizes that the ego, that part of our mind that's always threatened, always comparing, never satisfied, is our biggest challenge.”

“And if you start with the position that I am already wrong, I don't know everything. I'm getting something that I believe right now is off, but I'm trying to become less wrong. Then you're more in a position where you're trying to learn and less in a position …”

“In my mind, what ego is, you think that you're so good at something that you stop learning.”