Body Quote by Swami Vivekananda

[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

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

— Gloria Naylor

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

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

— Max Planck

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.

— Frederick Lenz

“When one takes under his control, the mind-speech-body which are under the control of vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences); that is called egoism.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

— Eckhart Tolle

“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

“In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then…

— Aldous Huxley

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed,…

— Paul Brunton

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

— Deepak Chopra