Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.
I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.
Time is a mind construct. It's not real.
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?
Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.
