Ego Quote by Dada Bhagwan

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

— Wei Wu Wei

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

— Frederick Lenz

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

— Max Planck

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this…

— Terry Eagleton

“To say ‘I am’, while being the Self (The Soul), is not egoism. But to say ‘I’ while being in the non-self, is egoism.…

— Dada Bhagwan

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from…

— Wayne Dyer

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

— F. Sionil Jose

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with…

— Cesare Pavese

Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of…

— Adyashanti

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

— Gelek Rimpoche