Egoic State Quotes & Sayings

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. — William Godwin

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay. — Saul Bellow

Who hit you?"
"Clara."
"Clara!"
"She whaled me one in return for upsetting you. Well, at least, that was the main reason. — Kristin Cashore

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way. — Axl Rose

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else. — Pete Wentz

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. — Joseph Addison

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. — Winston Churchill

My responsibility is to get people into the offense. — Deron Williams

In the egoic state, love gets confused with form, and so you think your love is in this form, in this other person. You don't realize that true love is the recognition of the formless in the other - which is the recognition of yourself in the other. — Eckhart Tolle

It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women. — Theodora Goss

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology. — Eckhart Tolle

Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be. — Adyashanti

That was one of the bravest, stupidest things you've ever
done," he said into my hair. "You just scared ten years off
my life."
I let out a little laugh, adrenaline still pumping through my
system. "You're immortal, dummy."
"I was before I met you," he quipped. — Jenna Black

As long as you are run by the egoic mind, you are part of the collective insanity. Perhaps you haven't looked very deeply into the human condition in its state of dominance by the egoic mind. Open your eyes and see the fear, the despair, the greed, and the violence that are all-pervasive. See the heinous cruelty and suffering on an unimaginable scale that humans have inflicted and continue to inflict on each other as well as on other life forms on the planet. You don't need to condemn. Just observe. That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. — Eckhart Tolle

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. — Christopher Nolan

Your tummy, soft as
warm dough. I knead and knead, then
bake it with a nap. — Lee Wardlaw

You're my best boy. Whatever happens, you'll always be my best boy. — David Almond