Ego Quotes by Pema Chödrön

13 Ego quotes by Pema Chödrön

Pema Chodron’s 13 brief teachings gently point out the ego’s grip and how mindfulness can loosen it. Though concise, each line offers a compassionate cue to pause and observe inner habits.

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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

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Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the…

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The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

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All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music…

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I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind…

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Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness…

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You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening…

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There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period…

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It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and…

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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It…

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Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's…

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