My Ego Quotes

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

I am deeply superficial.

I'm not sure the ring is big enough to hold both these egos!

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.