Edges Quote by Frederick Lenz

I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego, that would…

— Robert Thurman

“Egocentrism is the problem, then, not Egos. Egocentric people are agents for themselves only (and perhaps also for their immediate families), without awareness of…

— Bill Plotkin

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense…

— Frederick Lenz

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

— Chogyam Trungpa

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the…

— Frederick Lenz

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

— Tim LaHaye

“My spiritual teacher describes a person with a big ego as “a feather pretending to be an arrow.” Intuitively, this rings so true. When…

— Judith Orloff

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

— Frederick Lenz

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,…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

“Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it's dependent…

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

— Frederick Lenz

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

— Fay Weldon