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Ego
"Ego" in a Sentence (16 examples)
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires.
You can never have too much ego.
I regard Vivi as the most amazing person I've met, even though I know that inflates her ego.
When his advances were rebuffed, he attempted to allay his rankled ego by publicly undermining her intelligence.
What an ego!
He has a huge ego.
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
Failing the exam was a blow to his ego.
Tom has a huge ego.
An old man told his grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth." The boy thought about it and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?" The old man quietly replied, "The one you feed."
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When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
‘Everything begins with “I”, you mean. Which is ego,’ said Tom, placing an ankle behind his ear, ‘not id.’
Too many gay people "come out" publicly, yet fail to achieve truly healthy egos. They "adjust" to being less than whole or integrated persons.
My columns in the early days of the Labour government often featured John Prescott, who was in charge of transport as part of a mega-department created to match his ego.
the cousin of ego on the father's side
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