My Ego Quotes
This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.
To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.
It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.
The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?
The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.
A realized being would not be making any fresh karma because karma is very much connected to the ego but would still be receiving the results of past karma.
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
A lot of times people are too ego caught up where they made the decision and "We're going to stick with it" and then I had to suffer.
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.
When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.
The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.
A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that.
The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.
Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."
I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.
one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.
When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.
If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
So many of us have separated ourselves from our source and have lived on ego consciousness.
I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
Donald Trump is a liar because he is a coward. It is fear and cowardice that make him lie. it is his fragile ego that makes him lie.
Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.
As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.
A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!
...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.
perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.
All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s dependence upon men is evil.
How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.
... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.