No Ego Quotes

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.

The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!

The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.

Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.

With egoism at the center, the awareness of all worldly things can be set beautifully. The awareness of ‘I am Pure Soul’ can never setup with ego being at the center.

If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained.

Strong SPIRITS are usually liberated from the burden of their pain through forgiveness and letting go. EGO usually holds onto grudges and is the source of destruction by acting on impulse.

Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.

In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.

The Soul’s doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].

The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a mortal (jivatma) as long as there is egoism and if his egoism goes away, he becomes the eternal Absolute Supreme Soul (Paramatma).

You have two options whether to speed up or block your soul’s intentions. You have a choice: to act out of selfish ego or as a loving soul.

As long as the egoism is alive, ‘my-ness’ remains within the self.

It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

The tolerance power is the mother of egoism!

What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.

The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.

What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one’s own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.

The ‘one’ who does no ‘egoism’, the worldly life ends for him!

As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?

Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.

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

Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.

The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.

As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.

Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.

The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!

What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.