"The ego is as you think of..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.
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More on Ego
“And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.”
“There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.”
“I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?”
More on Self
“A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.”
“I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.”
“If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.”