Our Ego Quotes
33 quotes by 30 authors
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Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
— Cullen Hightower
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God, or a source of divinity, put together a map for our lives. That map includes opportunities-not outcomes-but opportunities. And those opportunities are contracts [or]…
— Caroline Myss
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Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the…
— Carl Jung
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Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.
— Chris Brogan
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Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
— Aesop
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When we feel we are powerless our ego most wants to change the things in our world. As we realize we have the power to…
— Gregg Braden
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We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
— Ram Dass
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We're all born with an ego – it's a natural part of who we are here. We're only completely without it in death. Fighting against…
— Anita Moorjani
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We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever…
— Pope Francis
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Our ego seeks to understand everything. It wants all the answers. Part of what destroys the ego and connects us with the light is doing…
— Yehuda Berg
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We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing…
— Michael Leunig
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Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings…
— Frederick Lenz
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We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious…
— Richard Rohr
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Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as…
— Amy Poehler
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When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.
— Rudolf Steiner
Who Wrote These Our Ego Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 33 Our Ego Quotes, led by these top contributors: