Quotes about ego

Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.

Dialogue isn’t a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room it is a collaboration to find the truth.

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.

So-called intellectuals have ego-power Fools have willpower.

Great people have great egos maybe that's what makes them great.

If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person choose your self-respect & ego.Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations.

The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego it sure is good for his intellect.

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage you're just playin' yourself.

if due to ego you think:i shall not fight this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you.

Pure Soul and circumstances there are only these two but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

Flowing egoism is not objectionable but if it is caught-up even a little-bit it is known as obstinacy. Flowing egoism is dramatic egoism. It is not problematic.

Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

A mind is a terrible thing waste it.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love fools just love.Fools breathe air intellectuals (so called) breathe ego.

When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

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

I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis It revolved around him.

Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego.

One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari) attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.

When the egoism becomes zero that is indeed spirituality.

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.

Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness tohappen. You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of “I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to di

Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than everything, even things we haven't yet investigated? And don't those people who aren't able to escape the bonds of their own ego think that the entire Universe, even the countless worlds of outer space, is just a backdrop for this ego? And yet it might be quite different.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

Ego said, 'I will not apologize for who I am'. Experience replied, 'unless your self-realization comes to light, your apology is worthless. And, when your self-realization does come to light, which it will, your apology will be of little or no value at all'. - Sandeep N. Tripathi

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all?

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

Fears hide within fears....

Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!

The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.

Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observation about what a lot of people who were happy with themselves seem to have done, namely:1. Take a careful inventory of their shortcomings and flaws2. Adopt a code of values that treats these things as virtues3. Admire themselves for living up to itB

When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves based on those labels. Break free from them and reclaim your unlimited potential to be your amazing self.

No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number believe their wish has been granted.

Take your ego out of your story.

Zafar argues that the greatest influence on a writer may be on her psychic dispositions as a writer. Reading Philip Roth, writes Zafar, might clear the way of inhibitions that held you back from writing about reckless desire, the temptations of power, and the immanence of rage, or reading Naipaul might convince you to seize the ego that so wants to be loved, drag it outside, put it up against a wall, and shoot it.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great? He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet. There is no greatness there.

Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart.

We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?

You were born, your life was to serve other souls,Love and serve or you'll be left alone,You worship not GOD but listen to Satan,That's why try not to think of going to Heaven,Being selfish will for sure lead you to pain,You will burn in fire and the GOD loving people will dance in the rain,The ego you have doesn't make any sense,One day you'll die and you won't have a second chance... It's 2:41 Am ~Me” ― Mr.Khan

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the ‘beyond’!

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.

Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life.

It’s the sensation that gives rise to ego or personal identity. All the external and internal experiences of life are experienced only with the sensation.

When your focus is on how you feel about things in the world then the things of the world slip from view, your little boat of learning things for what they are are swamped by the swells of how you feel about them. With hard work and with learning, the things of the world are still somehow out there, waiting for you to know about them, no matter how you feel. They survive how you feel about them and they are there before and after the storms of your feelings roar through and abate. Feelings aren'

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 -

you have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221

It’s thinking that I had the solution that probably created the problem in the first place.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

I hid my wound under my clothes. Nobody could see it, including myself, and I completely forgot about it. Then I met someone who, filled with love, held me tight in that point. The pain was devastating, and I hated him, o how much I hated him, the cause of all my suffering. Then I met someone, beautifully dressed, and I loved him so much, holding him tight with all my passion. And he suffered badly, and he hated me, o how much he hated me, the cause of all his pain. So the story went on till I m

It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.

perhaps the problem of evil is a human problem, one of an egotistical mind-set, an anthropocentric bent in our thinking and perspective.

Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.

On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!!

To the ego, love is poison.

In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness.

Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.

The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.

Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning,it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all.

Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness by the use of plants or substances is somehow wrong, onanistic, and perversely antisocial. I will argue that suppression of shamanic gnosis, with its reliance and insistence on ecstatic dissolution of the ego, has robbed us of life’s meaning and made us enemies of the planet, of ourselves, and our grandchildren. We are

The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously."Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at.""Meaning you?""What else?

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.