“Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.”
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
“Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies”
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
“I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence.”
“The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting ofthe soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the femalewith the male, of the ego with the non-ego—or what not.”