Ego Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

— Eckhart Tolle

“ the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others ”

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There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !

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The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

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Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

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In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

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I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.

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For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

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The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by…

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Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

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The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

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The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

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Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are…

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A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there…

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Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.…

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To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an…

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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in…

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Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity…

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“Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but…

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As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind.…

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The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is…

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Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is…

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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts…

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If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the…

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings…

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“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.…

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Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping…

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True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel…

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“Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of…

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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

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Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

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The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

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The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

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“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.”

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“Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”

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So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest…

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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

— Eckhart Tolle

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

— Eckhart Tolle

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego…

— Eckhart Tolle