A Quote by Frederick Lenz

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
American - Author
February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.

Rajneesh

True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

R. D. Laing

Donald Trump is behaving in an extremely provocative way toward China, having first cancelled the TPP and alienated America's friends in the region. Same thing that he's authorizing much riskier gambits against ISIS, having alienated many of America's allies and friends in the region.

David Frum

Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.

Rajneesh

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

Joe Jamail

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

Vince Cable

When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.

Frederick Lenz

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Jo Brand

I remember Borehamwood, I remember the home crowd, I remember that special moment looking at all of our friends and family in the crowd because I don't think we could believe we were European champions.

Emma Hayes

That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.

Rajneesh

If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.

Eric Andre

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

Chuck Palahniuk

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

Woody Allen

When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.

Rajneesh

Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends-- my real friends-- had done for me.

Meg Cabot

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