Quotes and Sayings About Ego
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
-- Aaron McGruder -
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
-- Aberjhani -
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
-- Adi Shankara -
It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.
-- Adolf Hitler -
In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.
-- Adyashanti -
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
-- Agnes Martin -
That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.
-- Ajahn Amaro -
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?
-- Al Pacino -
So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
-- Alain de Botton -
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
-- Alan Cohen -
Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
-- Alan Cohen -
The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
-- Alan Cohen -
Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
-- Alan Finger -
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.
-- Alan Watts -
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
-- Alan Watts -
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
-- Alan Watts -
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.
-- Alan Watts -
The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego
-- Alan Watts -
One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.
-- Alan Watts -
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
-- Albert Einstein -
...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.
-- Albert Hofmann -
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
-- Alec Guinness -
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator
-- Alex Grey -
The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...'
-- Alex Grey -
If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.
-- Alexander Lowen -
I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.
-- Alyson Noel
