Quotes tagged ‘Ego is the Enemy’

(4 total)

“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists.”

“An egocentric mind is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.”

— Carl Jung, amazon.com

“We have lost touch with chaos because it is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, the ego. The ego’s existence is defined in terms of control. The endless modeling process that the ego carries out is an effort to fight the absence of closure. The ego wants closure. It wants a complete expla…”

— Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, amazon.com

“The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind.”

— Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, amazon.com