My Ego Quotes

As long as this belief, ‘I am the doer’ is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state.

Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.

Tolerance is an attribute of egoism.

There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is ‘egoism’ and where there is Gnan, there is no ‘egoism’.

Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.

What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!

What is the value of the Gnani’s [the enlightened one’s] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani’s feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism.

As long as there is the egoism of ‘I-ness’ (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards ‘my-ness’ (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

If you say a word against a ‘sensitive’ person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a ‘record’ playing.

In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults.

One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.

How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.

The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism.

There is no ‘my’ in ‘I’. ‘My’ is outside of the ‘I’.

No one is a doer in this world. To claim, ‘I am doing’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.

Your Ego tells you that you were wronged and it validates your separation. Your Higher Self tells you that you were blessed and it validates your expansion.

I know’, is a big ghost. ‘This is mine’, is a huge demonic possession!

Egoism’s nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha’s (Illusory attachment’s) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.

You are Timeless Being and Awareness...You are not touched by any of this.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.

Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

Winning has a value for ego, but participation has a value for life.

Appreciation is a better stimulant than money. Money boosts the ego while appreciation touches the soul.

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but lose you.

Ego speaks from a place of pride.Judgement comes from a place of pain.Courage speaks from a place of humility.Correction comes from a place of love.Where are you operating from?

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

People write for ego gratification, not money.

Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't realize it makes them slaves. It's sick.

The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

I don't have wings, but I believe I can fly and touch the sky.

Mind makes a man of God.

Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.

Unless you realize yourself beyond the identity of the mind, you cannot become free from life.

Your identity is no more than the memory of your mind, and the time you learn to consciously look into your memories of the past, the first time you realize that nowhere you exist in your mind.

The ego of the mind can entrap you in a web of dilution.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey