Ego Quotes by Frederick Lenz

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

— Frederick Lenz

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

— Frederick Lenz

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

— Frederick Lenz

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

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Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the…

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When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun…

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The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The…

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The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you…

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Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the…

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The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own…

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Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental…

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The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire…

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There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an…

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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…

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Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and…

— Frederick Lenz

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all…

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To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including…

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For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them…

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If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the…

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Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right…

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Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

— Frederick Lenz

What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.

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In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

— Frederick Lenz

When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and…

— Frederick Lenz

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

— Frederick Lenz

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

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The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego,…

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You are either in this world or the other worlds, and it all depends on how much you are in your own…

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You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give…

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"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

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Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to…

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Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The…

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When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to…

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Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where…

— Frederick Lenz

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

— Frederick Lenz

You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity…

— Frederick Lenz