Top 100 Ego Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
Meher Baba
#4. The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.
Anne Bancroft
#5. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
#6. Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.
Osho
#7. The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.
Carl Jung
#8. Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
Steve Erickson
#9. From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
Dada Vaswani
#10. But once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality. You would do well to remember that.
Haruki Murakami
#11. Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
Eckhart Tolle
#12. All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil.
Ayn Rand
#14. The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.
Ram Dass
#15. Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette
#16. Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
Arlo Guthrie
#18. Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.
Ken Wilber
#19. The greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world.
Alan W. Watts
#20. The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.
Lee Daniels
#21. The ego is the preprogrammed response and your awareness is at a higher level of consciousness. Awareness allows you to drive right past your ego, so you can detach from it in order, meaning it won't consume you.
Josh Mecka
#22. A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
Aleister Crowley
#23. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
Ingmar Bergman
#24. Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck
#25. If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.
Ezra Miller
#26. When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
Rajneesh
#27. The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.
Eckhart Tolle
#28. The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer
#29. Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.
Frank M. Wanderer
#31. It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
Ruth J. Simmons
#32. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
Sharon Salzberg
#33. Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices....
Kathleen Dowling Singh
#34. The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.
Dada Bhagwan
#35. Your ego is gushing all over me and getting my favorite shoes dirty.
Nicole Williams
#36. The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
Frederick Lenz
#37. Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.
Carl Jung
#38. Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#39. A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
Ayn Rand
#40. Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love.
Human Angels
#41. Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
Rajneesh
#42. Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.
Donald O'Donovan
#43. The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.
Robert Thurman
#44. By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
Ramana Maharshi
#45. My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.
Renzo Gracie
#46. We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.
Evan Sutter
#47. When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
Nikki Sixx
#49. The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.
Deepak Chopra
#50. The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.
Loch Kelly
#52. Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
Ram Dass
#53. The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.
Swami Vivekananda
#54. You really don't recognize my name?"
He asks in disbelief. "Or me? Come on."
Ah. an ego is emerging, it seems.
"No, I'm sorry.
Carian Cole
#55. Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Sathya Sai Baba
#56. Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
Willa Cather
#57. How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.
Dada Bhagwan
#58. I think that in fact by taking on the persona of a human being, you begin to realise that it is all ego, and that beneath that ego is something else, and that something else is a tranquil, nonentity, that we are simply drops of the sea, that we belong to each other.
George Ogilvie
#59. Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.
Rajneesh
#60. The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.
Rajneesh
#61. The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Your ego is the biggest block you have in being able to listen to and trust your intuition in doing readings or even knowing and familiarizing yourself on a conscious level with your spiritual team.
Lisa Andres
#64. You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you will become more and more worried and puzzled. And this is not the way to get rid of the ego. The only way to get rid of the ego is to look at it.
Rajneesh
#65. That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.
Ajahn Amaro
#66. It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.
Sigmund Freud
#67. That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#68. Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
Ramana Maharshi
#69. When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
Lee Daniels
#70. Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
Pema Chodron
#71. Confidence is essential, but ego is not.
Sam Mendes
#72. Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#73. The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained in it as a part of it
Erwin Schrodinger
#76. He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him - everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another.
Douglas Adams
#77. The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
Eckhart Tolle
#78. If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength.
Eckhart Tolle
#79. To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand
#80. The feeling that we call "I" is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking.
Sam Harris
#81. When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.
Claire Danes
#82. Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.
RuPaul
#83. The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.
Thomas Metzinger
#84. My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love.
Rajneesh
#85. The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it
just don't get lost in it.
Ram Dass
#86. Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.
Rajneesh
#87. Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
Joseph Campbell
#89. If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.
Rajneesh
#90. When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.
Frederick Lenz
#91. The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Muhammad Iqbal
#92. Your ego is a scary beast. It should have its own name. We could call it something frightening like Darth Yummy.
Nichole Chase
#95. The ego is constantly comparing itself to others. It has us measuring our self-worth against the looks, wealth, and social status of everyone else. Did this not explain some of my worrying at work?
Dan Harris
#96. Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.
Edward Ruscha
#97. The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
Frederick Franck
#98. The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.
Taite Adams
#99. The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.
Abbe Smith
#100. Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.
Osho
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