Ego Enlightenment Quotes

#1. Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and reconstructed.

Jun Po Roshi

#2. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.

Evita Ochel

#3. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

Beth Johnson

#4. The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...

Akemi G

#5. When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered.

Osho

#6. The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. My enlightenment comes from the lucid awareness of my extinction not the dream of my eternal ego.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#8. The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#9. Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Gary Hopkins

#10. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Frederick Lenz

#12. My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Terence McKenna

#13. To the ego, love is poison.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#14. Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

T.F. Hodge

#15. 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

#16. The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

Frank M. Wanderer

#17. What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

Vivian Amis

#18. Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

#19. Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.

Donald O'Donovan

#20. Enlightenment is not about building a false sense of spirituality or blindly following religious doctrine, it is about carefully cultivating practices that relieve one of the ego and transcend the illusory perceptions of the world.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#21. The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#22. Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.

Evita Ochel

#23. There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

Saurabh Sharma

#24. The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa

#25. The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego.

Matthew Donnelly

#26. The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. Fears hide within fears....

Jacqueline Ripstein

#28. The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being.

Pooja Ruprell

#29. It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

Enza Vita

#30. Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

Wayne Dyer

#31. The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it's just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn't in the character, it's in the underlying truth.

Jed McKenna

#32. What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!

Dada Bhagwan