Use "ego" in a sentence

1. ‘Extension of the ego and all that

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2. One great thing about roller derby; you could forget all about your real life and just be your alter ego for an hour or two

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3. Once again, the lesson at Janus made me think: What does Alexander (and all gurus) mean when he talks about “breaking the Ego”? Mainly, it is the suppression of personal judgement and will

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4. The methods used by spiritual masters so as to break their disciples' Ego are mostly red herrings, sophistry or rhetorical tricks; the listeners seldom oppose to them, because of excessive psychological pressure they are usually subjected to

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5. Modern cults appear to be different in many ways, but actually they are all the same: they all trumpet forth the “breaking of the Ego” with a view to creating obedient, passive citizens who are always ready to carry out any order without thinking or asking questions

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6. He also acknowledged my discovery about the awareness of time and space; “Yet, if your Ego is satisfied by it, you are in danger of losing the way,” he concluded

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7. I am also frustrated by the knowledge that, even if I could present you with such tokens, you probably wouldn’t wear them … I have never met a woman who wears less jewellery or who is so difficult to buy presents for! This being the case, I am sustaining my ego by building up a little store of surprises for you – one day I shall dig them out of storage and watch as you open the various boxes

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8. His wife embellished her life considerably with good quality clothes and jewellery, buffing up her ego and fluffing her aura so much that she became a leading light in the social whirl at the country club

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9. Old Ted, however, was not inclined to inflate his own ego

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10. Know that you cannot serve an ego that is out of

11. Amazing … I spend years with an oik like Kevin because I couldn’t find anything better and suddenly I’m knee deep in attractive men … not that I would want to swop Dave for anyone … but it is very good for the ego

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12. Boras was so confident of himself that the thought of failure never entered his mind; his ego simply wouldn’t allow it

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13. “What you complaining about? You’ll have a big ego, being in a house with three women who love you,” said Suzanne

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14. Where would she get such a notion that a fragile ego had anything to do with being male? In fact, wasn’t it the female who was usually more involved in raising and nurturing children? “What planet are you from?” He asked, “You must have spent far too much time with the Yingolians to say a thing like that

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15. Why did that hurt so much? Was it just her ego being bruised? She couldn’t really care for such a low-life bumpkin as he, could she?

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16. It would no longer feed his ego to have her around now that she was no longer with Knume

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17. His fragile little ego couldn't abide his ineffectiveness at this, and so raised both his arms to push harder; which he did

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18. He knew they’d had words, when she didn't even stop to stroke his ego, for smelling the roses

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19. It makes the most sense so far for the observed behavior, even though it is less than flattering to my ego

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20. " He stroked her ego, "But in order to use it

21. of these animals and pull it out when my ego needs a bit

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22. 'Be careful how you answer this', she told herself, 'your tongue is not done raising welts on this one's ego, but your genitals veto the eternal barrier

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23. Then, the ego has entered and manifesting (the universe-driven process)

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24. Age of Taurus; just as Jesus exits from ego into faith beyond Death

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25. The “I am that I am” ego of God in the burning bush: A plant’s static brain sacrificed with

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26. The spoken ego of god transfigured into the two tablets: Writing ego into material history; transfigured On a mount; high up in transcendent enlightenment; The two tablets illustrating the logos itself:

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27. Ego on the edge of a sphere—

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28. Perfect awareness—having passed the swell of time, I remain in history—looked at as an ass for assuming To communicate what I might—repressing some saving Grace from myself, not knowing if I deserve it—“I would Have it as it is, rather than not have it at all?”—Should A saving grace be given to thieves, tress-passers, Law-breakers—a solution is pain reduction, and life sustenance, Not pride games and social repression—the endorphins Replete of all respect find endurance through pompous Wanderings of the ego in control—the ego who would Take the blame and ends up being the only one to know Its great reward—to hide this scar, to pretend it did not 68

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29. Ego loss is Simply the limit… and not the ideal… It should in no way be Practiced on another: murder—please don’t rob me of coincidence!”

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30. Their physical body may have been rolling around in a muddy moor somewhere but their astral body had taken flight with their ego to lands unknown

31. This permits him to hone in on minute movements on the forest floor that would surely go undetected by you and me—not only due to our lesser developed ear antennas we’ve got plopped on each side, but more so caused by our constant inner noise and mental distraction that we are subjected to by our ever-present and overly-active ego

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32. Alternatively, it may suggest that your ego is becoming over-inflated

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33. as you open your mind you wash away EGO

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34. Others may call it the self-conscious self, the ego, or the egoic self

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35. Fear primary effect causes ignorance held by the consciousness that its ego is greater than all and allows for hatred to weaken the spirit

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36. Our essence is pure our sorrow is ego

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37. When you are able to release the thought of the ego self you can then become what you were meant to be in this universe

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38. Ego is the self destructive illusive mind illusion that you create to hide from the world

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39. However the ego that creates hatred, jealousy, revenge, and

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40. Essentially, Form is Samsara, the world of the ego

41. and what Nirvana is empty of is ego

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42. Without the seductions of a conflicted ego, reality lacks the incentive to transform itself into illusion

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43. Nirvana may be entered when we are in elevated states of spiritual consciousness or in any true state of meditation during which, by definition, the ego has been transcended

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44. This self-image (ego) is a kind of do-it-yourself affair, created by each of us as we go through life

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45. The ego is not a real self

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46. We’ve seen that unconditional happiness is always available to us, and that sense pleasures, ego strokes, and possessions are not necessary to make us happy

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47. [220] All we know is the image of ourselves (the ego)

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48. Yogic teaching can, in the words of philosopher Alan Watts, help us “get rid of the hallucination that each one of us is a skin-encapsulated ego

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49. When you focus on only your ego and its related desires and aversions, you become attached to it, and at its mercy

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50. The ego exists in a world of scarcity, where whatever you have is never enough

51. The ego cooks up any number of reasons to dish out fear, anxiety, physical pain, sadness, despair, and all of the “thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to

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52. ”[222] The stronger the attachment to and identification with the ego, the less chance there is of knowing the Self

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53. ” Wanting experiences and things is what the ego does

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54. For the ego, all happiness comes from the material world, and from having things and relationships (of the easy, flattering kind) in the world

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55. We know that lasting happiness does not come in this fashion, but the ego does not know this

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56. So stealing panders to the ego; it strengthens it

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57. All of the yogas share the commonality of helping you release your attachment to self-image and related attractions and aversions (the ego)

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58. The ego has great fear of losing its hold on you

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59. The image of a loving God, who is there to receive you, can be a powerful source of the courage you need to let go of your ego attachments

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60. Swami Satchidananda describes how the devotional path can be one of the easiest ways to loosen the hold of the ego

61. Hence, our action towards other people is directed by this distorted perception of our ego

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62. If we value our character, we will then always choose actions based on the intention of our Higher Self instead of our ego

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63. When the aforesaid process is allowed to go unabated, the ego literally takes command of the conscious self

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64. Thus every time a supposedly good idea crops up, it will be shot down with doubts or fear by the ego

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65. Fear is not the only feeding ground for the ego as it also thrives on feelings of jealousy, arrogance and pride

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66. The constant battle between the ego and the Higher Self lends credence to the observation that life in this world is one that is steeped in polarities

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67. When the truth is laid bare to our ego, we feel hurt because we do not want to acknowledge that it is our doing

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68. In reality, the truth only hurts the ego but not the Higher Self

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69. Commonly, it is known as the battle between the Ego and the Higher Self

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70. had been a tremendous blow to her ego

71. “Now that’s an ego trip!” she teased

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72. Frank's ego would be boosted with this nubile young woman on his arm

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73. ” The wind bag pushed off his face scarlet and sweat breaking out on his brow his ego had been deflated and like all cowards he had retreated he must have thought he was dealing with new recruits or something though he now knew better

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74. ” Helen then deflated my ego in seconds saying

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75. That was an ego bruising experience, but I vowed that I would return and get my Ph

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76. Even though I hadn’t left with any hostilities against anyone, my ego and self-esteem were badly bruised and I hadn’t gotten a job by the time the fellowship was over

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77. ‘Of course I had to appeal to your ego – it was the obvious way to recruit you

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78. ” That last comment was also a blow to Jean’s ego

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79. It served no purpose to smash his magnificent ego

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80. With his looks, anything less than a gargantuan ego would have been shocking

81. Nevertheless, Esmond Pie loved to show off and explained the entire operation to stoke his enormous ego

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82. If there are no interruptions from the ego or the intellect

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83. I do not speak in jest! I am of the opinion that nothing less than the utter annihilation of the male ego will satisfy the morbid designs of its dourest members

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84. The ego has its tasks, but it has taken the population of Earth hostage

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85. These women, with few exceptions, were not motivated by a universal agenda (extending beyond the immediate requirements for Equal Rights) that has subsequently evolved in modern times into a feminization of the male ego, leaving in its wake something that can best be described as a masculine identity that is less than manly, giving subsequent rise to artificial relationships lacking fixed points of (gender) reference

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86. A combination of ego, stubbornness, a determination not to appear weak, macho bluster, and simple refusal to face reality trapped both presidents

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87. Granted, this was done with great fanfare the year before he ran for his first public office, but he felt he was fulfilling his destiny as Limon’s political savior, and soon had a loyal constituency to continually feed his ego

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88. But MacArthur’s ego wanted to see the shame of his defeat removed

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89. It wouldn’t be too much of a blow to the Baron’s ego or the morale of his men, who were taking a mauling, to be rested at the routine interval

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90. Animals have a pecking order, but only a basic, instinctive ego

91. Truman was ambivalent about Gordon’s manipulation of the press, but delighted that his super-inflated ego and fixation on Tweety-Bird blinded him to all else

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92. “Just doing a story,” replied Ethan and added “Major, sir,” with an afterthought, hoping to feed the man’s ego

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93. Relief overwhelmed him; the relief of being back in the Cloud, the defeat of the alien battleship, the incredible boost to his ego

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94. ‘Try to think of it this way then: my ego, my emotions, my feelings, my philosophical and theoretical ideas are all meaningless to him

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95. limitations of human body, mind and ego; it is this love that motivated

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96. In the part of “science” called Psychology there is the duality of the physical body (the Id) and then the mental processes called the Ego

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97. Now, what a dirty trick had been played on his ego

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98. ” But alas the very smallness of Man compared to his ego cannot resist having one more

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99. Besides, there is a great ego thing that goes with IQ

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