- “If we take memetics seriously then the ‘me’ that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.” ― Susan J. Blackmore, The Meme Machine
- “Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “I learned as a teenager to keep certain prophecies and visions to myself or at least to my own small council. Our esteemed House of Oracles has many gifted Seers who get overly excited when they finally piece something together. Then the whole world knows. Then they all come to me yammering for solutions. “What shall we do? How can we fix it? Tell us all that you know about this…” And next come the ad nauseum discussions. Everybody has an opinion—each sure they’ve divined the best course and the talk goes in endless circles for weeks and moons, until I want to cut out their tongues so I no longer have to listen to their egos.It becomes my dearest wish; a giant bouquet of dry, deflated tongues that are finally finally still.” ― DD Adair
- “Sermon of the MountsMatthew 5AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS, AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM. The multitudes, the masses, the crowd, is the lowest state of consciousness. It is a deep ignorance and sleep. If you want to relate and communicate with the masses, you have to come down to their level. That is why whenever you go into the masses, the crowd, you start to feel suffocated. This suffocation is physical and psychological, beacuse you relate to people, who functions from a very low state of consciousness. They pull you down and you become physically and psychologically tired and drained. That is why a need for meditation and aloneness arises. There is a practice in the life of Jesus that he noves into the crowds of people, but after a few months he goes to the mountains. He goes away from the crowd, to be with God. When you are alone, you are with God. To relate to the masses brings you down to their level of consciousness, but only in the presence of God, you can fly.With the crowd, you can not fly, you become crippled, and the masses will not tolerate if you do not live according to them, according to their level of consciousness.To be able to work with the masses, to be able to help them, you have to relate to them according to their level fo consciousness – and this is tiring and draining.Both Jesus and Buddha moved to the mounatins, to a lonely place, just to be themselves, and to be with God to regain their vitality to be able to come back to the masses where people are thristy. The montain is where Jesus do not need to think about the masses, where he can forget the mind and the body. In that moment of aloneness and meditation, one simply is. This is the inner being, the source of life. And when you are full again, you can share again. AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM. To talk to the masses and to talk to disciples is two very different things. To talk to the crowd is to talk to people, who are indifferent. The crowd is resisting, defensive and argumentative. To talk to disciples means to talk to people, who have a basic thirst. It means that they are not defensive, they are open to listen to the heart of truth. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING.Jesus escaped into the mountains from the crowd, but he did not escape from the disciples.He was available to the disciples.In his aloneness, Jesus is with God. And through Jesus, the disciples can feel God. The closer the disciple come to Jesus, the more they will see that Jesus is a silence and emptiness through which God can sing. And the more the disciple himself will become an emptiness, he will also be able to help other people. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING. BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT, FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD. This is the most fundamental statement of Jesus.With this statement, Jesus has said everything. The “poor in spirit” is exactly what Buddha means with the term Shunyatta – “emptiness”, no-self, nothingness.It is when the ego disappears, and you are a nobody, a silence. If you are a nobody, if you are nothing, you are God.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten
- “The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego’s regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society’s longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.” ― Dan Harmon
- “An actor gets into his role when he reaches the film set. But every corner of this world is a film set. As the sets change, you switch from one role to another spontaneously. From family roles to office roles, from lead role to side role, you play them all as per the set around you, In temple you are in the role of a devotee, in meditation you are in the role of a seeker. When you are not in a role, who are you?” ― Shunya
- “You are limited only by who you think you are — your ego. ” ― Omar Cherif
- “Ego said, ‘treat me like a game and I will show you how it’s played’; Soul replied, ‘ego can never lose; it is always a winner because ego is playing against itself [ego is me; soul is we]’.” ― Sandeep N. Tripathi
- “This is essential because without a properly functioning ego, you have no center for makinghealthy choices and decisions. All too often, your decisions are based on the fear of getting in trouble or getting abandoned, rather than on the principles of having meaningful and equitable interactions with the world.” ― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
- “I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- “If you get hurt every time someone misunderstands or demonstrates their unwillingness to learn, you’ll never build the experience needed to get truly good at teaching and, therefore, will never experience the rewards of doing it well.” ― Anthony J. Stieber, Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want
- “Meditation is a death, a death of the ego. A meditator has to pass through a death. Meditation is the art of learning to die consciously. The spiritual teacher gives you meditation to die and to be reborn.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten, When the Drop becomes the Ocean
- “When you drink water, the clouds, rivers, ocean, wells and icy mountains should come in your mind. But human ego makes you think that water was created in a factory. Let go of ego and be one with the universe. Ego uses you, the universe nourishes you.” ― Shunya
- “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.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. Michel de Montaigne
- “Writing lets you be, say, and do anything. It’s sugar for your ego and wings for your ideas.” ― A.M. McKnight, Goslyn County
- “EGO, the quintessential human delusion of self importance.” ― George Banister
- Ego takes everything personally. Eckhart Tolle
- “Ignorance kills first.Then arrogance.” ― Sindhu Biswal
- “As long as the egoism is alive, ‘my-ness’ remains within the self.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.” ― Nouman Ali Khan
- “She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can always transcend the pain of the ego.” ― Madhu Vajpayee, Seeking Redemption
- “Don’t plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you’ll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.” ― John Martin Shepherd
- “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.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “Your Shadow is all of the things, ‘positive’ and ‘negative’, that you’ve denied about yourself and hidden beneath the surface of the mask you forgot that you’re wearing.” ― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
- “Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see …each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition– all such distortions within our own egos– condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That’s how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other’s naked hearts.” ― Tennessee Williams
- “Quien vaya a ser sabio se menosprecia a sí mismo. Sólo los ignorantes confían en su propio juicio.” ― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
- “The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer these questions now, with the stakes still low, than it will be later.” ― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy