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

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

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

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

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

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The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved…

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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or…

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In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the…

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The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it…

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Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem,…

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Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep…

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Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the…

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There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it…

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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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When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with…

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If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.…

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

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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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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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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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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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Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

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

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

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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

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

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