False Ego Quotes

#1. Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

Rumi

#2. Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

Carl Jung

#3. Renunciation means death of false ego.

Radhanath Swami

#4. The Path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide. Not your mind. Meet, challenge, and ultimately prevail over your nafs (false ego) with your heart. Knowing your ego (higher self/soul) will lead you to the knowledge of God. (2)

Various

#5. Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Criss Jami

#8. Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all?

Girdhar Joshi

#9. Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.

John O'Donohue

#11. The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

Frederick Lenz

#12. 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

#13. The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

Frederick Lenz

#14. You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Leonard Nimoy

#15. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. 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

#17. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Criss Jami

#18. Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Idries Shah

#19. The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

Vironika Tugaleva

#20. The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

Rajneesh

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

Eckhart Tolle

#23. The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. 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

#25. What the ego (the False Self) hates and fears more than anything else is change. It will think up a thousand other things to be concerned about or be moralistic about - anything rather than giving up "who I think I am" and "who I need to be to look good.

Richard Rohr

#26. The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

Gelek Rimpoche

#27. False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

Dov Davidoff