Ego Quotes
1855 Ego quotes by 1000 unique authors
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The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided…
— Laozi
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The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a…
— John McNally
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Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.
— Constantin Brancusi
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You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest -…
— Brian Weiss
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...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
— Huston Smith
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Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate…
— Wayne Dyer
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All emanates from Source! ...You're not this body and its accomplishments. You are the observer. Notice it all; and be grateful for the abilities you've…
— Wayne Dyer
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Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to…
— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
— Adi Shankara
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Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for…
— Gelek Rimpoche
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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
— Gelek Rimpoche
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The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego…
— Gelek Rimpoche
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That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.
— Gelek Rimpoche
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In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego…
— Kenny Smith
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What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual…
— Kenny Smith
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All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination…
— Kenny Smith
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Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.
— Deepak Chopra
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All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free;…
— Deepak Chopra
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In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in…
— Daniel Odier
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As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our…
— Ken Wilber
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Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across…
— Ken Wilber
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