Consciousness Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

“the ego begins to confront the Self and the Self the ego, and through the mediation of the transcendent function (which we will examine…

— Anthony Stevens

The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The soul is stronger than the ego. It lives to BE, and give. We are of one Light, illuminating ourselves and those whom we…

— Anonymous

“The essence of human life is to come into one’s nature of the Self (Soul), get awakened and remain only in ‘Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Now when our ego is turned up high, working in tandem with our conscious awareness knob, the ego becomes a beneficial tool because it…

— Anita Moorjani

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

— Ernst Mach

“If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher…

— Samuel Sagan

[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown…

— Richard Tarnas

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which…

— Swami Vivekananda

“When I let go of the identification with the body, then I open myself to the unbounded awareness of pure Self. This is the…

— Janet, Bray Attwood

“Body, mind, and spirit are not separate parts. Instead they are more like lenses, or ways of focusing. The awareness of oneness, and the…

— Marcey Shapiro