My Ego Quotes

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.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Love means to reach for the sky and with every breath to tear a hundred veils. Love means to step away from the ego, to open the eyes of inner vision and not to take this world so seriously

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net

If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.

It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity.

Instead of fighting the ego, I align with the evolutionary impulse and I ask myself: What does the evolutionary impulse wants to say or do through me?

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

I, in the end, make art for myself.