All ALAN WATTS Quotes about “Ego”

“Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word â€œwaterâ€ is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.”
“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.”
“The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.”
“The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego”
“I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.”
“One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.”
“The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!”
“To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.”
“The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.”

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