All 18 Uses
ego
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- From what he's told me, they made a big ego thing out of the whole outdoor experience.†
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- It made the kids at camp much more enthusiastic and cooperative when they had ego goals to fulfill, I'm sure, but ultimately that kind of motivation is destructive.†
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- To the untrained eye ego-climbing and selfless climbing may appear identical.†
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- The ego-climber is like an instrument that's out of adjustment.†
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- When an ego-climber has an image of himself to protect he naturally lies to protect this image.†
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- Chris's spirits seem to be better now, but I'm afraid it's the ego thing again.†
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- But there's a slight ego gleam in his eyes as he asks this and the answer as a result comes out masked.†
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- An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.†
Part 3 *egoless = without a sense of importancestandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in egoless means without and reverses the meaning of ego. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- It's the internal gumption trap of ego.†
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- Ego isn't entirely separate from value rigidity but one of the many causes of it.†
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- Your ego isolates you from the Quality reality.†
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- On any mechanical repair job ego comes in for rough treatment.†
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- You're always being fooled, you're always making mistakes, and a mechanic who has a big ego to defend is at a terrific disadvantage.†
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- It's just that the personality that it responds to is your real personality, the one that genuinely feels and reasons and acts, rather than any false, blown-up personality images your ego may conjure up.†
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- These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you're bound to be very discouraged very soon if you've derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality.†
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- Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego.†
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- This is the opposite of anxiety and commonly goes with ego problems.†
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- The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(ego Freud's definition) psychoanalysis: the part of the personality that mediates between the primitive, instinctual desires of the id and the moral conscience of the superego
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(2)
(ego as in: bruised her ego) one's sense of self-esteem (sense of importance or ability)
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, ego can be a synonym for self.