Top 100 Spiritual Ego Quotes
#1. What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.
Vivian Amis
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. To receive the guidance you want and need, you must set your ego mind aside at least momentarily long enough for spiritual inspiration to drop in naturally.
Catherine Carrigan
#5. There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is 'egoism' and where there is Gnan, there is no 'egoism'.
Dada Bhagwan
#6. 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
#7. When the egoism becomes zero; that is indeed spirituality.
Dada Bhagwan
#8. There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.
Michael Singer
#9. Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.
Dada Bhagwan
#10. As long as there is the egoism of 'I-ness' (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards 'my-ness' (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?
Dada Bhagwan
#11. Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.
Dada Bhagwan
#12. Remember, that which appeals to the ego cannot help your spiritual growth.
Osho
#13. The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.
Lester Levenson
#14. Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
Deepak Chopra
#15. With egoism at the center, the awareness of all worldly things can be set beautifully. The awareness of 'I am Pure Soul' can never setup with ego being at the center.
Dada Bhagwan
#16. If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#19. In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.
Dada Bhagwan
#20. It is not possible to know 'Who am I?' by 'doing'. 'Doing' (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, 'Who am I' cannot be known.
Dada Bhagwan
#21. As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.
Dada Bhagwan
#22. Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.
Ayya Khema
#23. Where Eckhart Tolle meets Jack Kerouac meets Buddha. A free consciousness expanding book to kill Ego, sexual boredom & lack of excitement in life.
Gregor Reti
#24. To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
Marianne Williamson
#25. I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.
Amber Valletta
#26. Neither the world nor one's actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!
Dada Bhagwan
#27. 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
#28. The more the mind dominates, the more the ego comes into play, and the further people depart from their true inner self. So all the technological advances in the world mean nothing if people feel a spiritual void inside of them.
Stuart Wilde
#29. What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.
Dada Bhagwan
#30. There is no 'my' in 'I'. 'My' is outside of the 'I'.
Dada Bhagwan
#31. When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.
Sufian Chaudhary
#32. What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
Ken Wilber
#33. The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone; he is said to have attained the Self.
Dada Bhagwan
#34. 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
#35. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
Dada Bhagwan
#36. 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
#37. The goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing" ... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.
Lawrence Kushner
#38. The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.
Robert H. Schuller
#39. 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
#40. What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.
Dada Bhagwan
#41. The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.
Dada Bhagwan
#42. What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!
Dada Bhagwan
#45. The 'one' who does no 'egoism', the worldly life ends for him!
Dada Bhagwan
#46. Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.
Wayne Dyer
#47. Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.
Dada Bhagwan
#48. The human Soul will only find its Light,
when the Ego gives its permission.
C.C. Campbell
#49. Gnani (The Enlightened one) means without Ego.
Dada Bhagwan
#50. Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.
Sathya Sai Baba
#51. What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one's own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.
Dada Bhagwan
#52. The 'egoism' that is used to hurt others will hurt one's own self. The 'egoism' that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.
Dada Bhagwan
#53. One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.
Leonard Jacobson
#54. In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.
Dada Bhagwan
#55. Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
Gary Hopkins
#56. Egoism's nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha's (Illusory attachment's) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.
Dada Bhagwan
#57. Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#58. When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.
Frederick Lenz
#59. Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.
Karan Bajaj
#60. The Ego ages ... the Soul evolves ... and to the Awareness, nothing happened!
Ram Dass
#61. Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault; the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego.
Dada Bhagwan
#62. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
Marianne Williamson
#63. Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief.
Dada Bhagwan
#64. If you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do.
Nikki Rowe
#65. Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.
Simone Weil
#66. There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'.
Dada Bhagwan
#67. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.
Karen Witemeyer
#68. As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way.
Gerry Boylan
#69. The worldly life has arisen through the ego. One is indeed free if the ego dissolves. What is the foundation on which the ego stands? It is the ignorance of the Self.
Dada Bhagwan
#70. Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.
Dada Bhagwan
#71. Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
Ram Dass
#72. Flowing egoism is not objectionable but if it is caught-up even a little-bit; it is known as obstinacy. Flowing egoism is dramatic egoism. It is not problematic.
Dada Bhagwan
#73. Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.
Dada Bhagwan
#75. That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.
David O. Russell
#76. Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#77. Seeking what you get from others fuels the ego& depletes the soul.
Seeking what you can give others is where purpose& fulfillment begins.
Jen Groover
#78. If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.
Richard Rohr
#79. The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.
Dada Bhagwan
#80. The slightest awareness of 'my-ness' is indeed egoism.
Dada Bhagwan
#81. The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
Albert Einstein
#82. Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#83. What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'.
Dada Bhagwan
#84. One' is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is 'charging' (of karma). When one tastes egoistic pride of, "I did this samayik, I did these activities", he will 'charge' (karma). The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet.
Dada Bhagwan
#85. Real Evolution is a state of consciousness. To really and truly evolve, means to align with the truth; to align with something other than the illusion and delusion of the ego mind and lower states of consciousness.
Arielle Hecht
#86. Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.
Dada Bhagwan
#88. A spiritual path for the modern samurai, but in the service of the heart, not the dictatorship of the ego.
Vincent Thibault
#89. As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self.
Dada Bhagwan
#90. The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.
Michael Singer
#91. As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.
Andrew Cohen
#92. If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained.
Dada Bhagwan
#93. Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.
Dada Bhagwan
#94. I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.
Eckhart Tolle
#95. I know', is a big ghost. 'This is mine', is a huge demonic possession!
Dada Bhagwan
#96. If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.
Doreen Virtue
#97. As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?
Dada Bhagwan
#98. One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!
Dada Bhagwan
#99. I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
Troy Polamalu
#100. EGO stands for Exclude God's Opinion. We think we know everything. Do we really know everything about the working of physical, mental and spiritual world? Not even a tenth!
Maddy Malhotra
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