Buddhism Ego Quotes

#1. You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

Frederick Lenz

#2. When you begin to relinquish your ego, you will no longer feel compelled to prove to people how busy you are in an attempt to validate your sense of worth.

Miya Yamanouchi

#3. The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.

Eve Ensler

#6. The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

Frederick Lenz

#7. When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.

Loch Kelly

#9. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

Frederick Lenz

#11. You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#13. True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Matthieu Ricard

#14. Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

Frederick Lenz

#15. You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own ego.

Frederick Lenz

#16. There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

Frederick Lenz

#17. Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

Frederick Lenz

#18. In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.

Frederick Lenz

#21. To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.

Osho