#ego

For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least to the passes of the Mountains, and maybe beyond. For Men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#arathorn #dwarves #free-people-of-the-world #gimli #gloin

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is like a lion with himself, always striving to eradicate that which shadows his inner light, and like a lamb with others, always striving to see their inner light, no matter how dense may be the clouds that hide it. He is the king of the jungle of his world. He hides from no one and seeks escape from nothing. (88) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#ego #evil #inner-light #spiritual-teachers #spirituality

...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors! ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#letters #psychoanalysis #rimbaud #intellect

Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumb-ass little heart got shattered into a million pieces, it was time to stop the bullshit. It was time to be a male. As Blay started to straighten, like a message had been received, Qhuinn thought, That's right Buddy. Our time has come. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#qhuinn #ego

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#ego #ego

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#ego

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #ego

You need ego but mine is not blinding. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#ego #mine #need #you

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#come #compared #death #ego #extremely

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

#because #break #break up #clash #creative