A Quote by Wei Wu Wei

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

Wei Wu Wei

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Wei Wu Wei
Philosopher
September 14, 1895 - January 5, 1986

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Tryon Edwards

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

Susan Sontag

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

Bill Drayton

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.

Susan Sontag

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

Rajneesh

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

Robert Hugh Benson

The love to which ego is attached is a form of jealousy - this is why nobody is as jealous as lovers are. The love which is attached to the ego is a conspiracy and a trick to possess the other. It is a conspiracy - that is why nobody suffocates so many people as those who talk of love. This situation is created because of the 'love' which comes from the ego - there can never be any relation between love and the ego.

Rajneesh

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Morihei Ueshiba

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

Ivan Panin

To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.

Peter Julian Eymard

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

William Boyd

The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves. In fact, it is the ego that feels that we have an ego. It is ego that tells us, My ego is bothering me. I feel very self-conscious about having to be me. I feel that I have a tremendous burden in me, and I wonder what the best way to get rid of it is. Yet all those expressions of restlessness that keep coming out of us are the expression of buddha nature: the expression of our unborn, unobstructed, and nondwelling nature.

Chogyam Trungpa

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.