EGO Quotes
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.
A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.
Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.
Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.
He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.
The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault
You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.
Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole."- Author Serena Jade
Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.
Ego very much wants to make you think that your self worth is all about what you possess, what you've accomplished, and who you know.
If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.
When relying solely on ego, we are given many messages that are contrary to the achievement of that happy and fulfilling life that most of us actually desire.
The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.
When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.
Ego sends a lot of messages through the sub-conscious that do not serve our true nature, even a little bit.
Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.
Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems.
Negative thinking will not produce positive changes - ever.
If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person
Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.
When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).
To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you
Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.
We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.
Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.
God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life
...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.
Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.
Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.
Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.
...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.
We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.
Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.
Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.
Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise.
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.