- “A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don’t have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed.” ― Gina Lake, What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
- “God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “Some people seem to see a conversation as a competition to see who can talk the longest and the most often.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Life is naturally going to have ups and downs, comings and goings, pleasures and hardships, joy and pain. Let us be kind to ourselves, understanding that we are here to learn. And let us be kind to others, knowing that peace is the ultimate prize of life and nothing is worth more. Simply to side with peace is to disempower the ego’s hold. In so doing, the natural, beautiful, and healing rhythms of life have a chance to start singing their sweet song in our listening ear.” ― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
- “I will use narrative writing to explore the past, analyze the present, and speculate upon the future. I will studiously attempt to slay my ego and re-write my sense of self into a benign creature that reflects the worthy character traits of a beloved tortoise.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “People like honesty when it favors them.” ― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
- “Jesus was a man of love, of immense compassion. He loved this earth, the people, the threes, because that is the way to love God. God is life. Jesus is very life-affirmative. He says total yes to life. When you look into the eyes of each being that you meet, you meet God. Everybody is an incarnation of God – the threes, the flowers, the rocks, the animals, the people and the mountains. Love the people, love the threes, love the animals – and through the love you meet God. All are brothers here, because God is one. The threes, the flowers, the birds and the rocks are all your brothers, because they all come from the one source. if you are not reconciled with the world, you cannot pray to God. Prayer is only possible when you are in harmony with existence. The whole existence is your brother. The first step for prayer is to be reconciled with your brother. And your brother means all beings. Jesus is a celebration of being, a celebration of life. If you deny life, you deny God. If you say no to life, you say no to God, because God is life. To understand Jesus, you have to understand that life is God. If you say yes to life, you will feel a prayer arising in your heart, a yes arising in your being. The ego is a no to life, the ego is a separation from life. The inner being is a yes to life. The inner being is a deep yes and acceptance of life. Saying yes bridges you with the whole. It makes you a part of the whole. Saying yes will make you more and more spiritual. Jesus whole message is yes. The word “amen” means yes. You will never meet God, you will meet human beings, animals, stones and threes. You can love God through other human beings, through threes, through stones and through animals. And when you have learnt to love God through all his forms – then only love changes into prayer.” ― Swami Dhyan Giten
- “If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Relationships are used by the darkness to keep people revolving around the ego’s demands. For a moment, people see the light of the divine in each other. They run to it and then quickly forget the light they once saw as their fears reclaim their consciousness. Thus begins the ongoing battle to protect one’s own ‘rights’, in case they be forgotten or betrayed. The tally of what is owed is counted, the guilt of perceived wrong doings is cast upon the other, one’s freedom must be paid as the price for ‘love’, and it is only in short periods of peace when all of this is forgotten. Those moments are the precious windows of the Soul.” ― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
- “Your ego is everything man about yourself” ― Jeremy Aldana
- “Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “Un lema de la raza humanaDime qué debo hacer; pero tiene que ser lo que quiero que me digas.” ― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
- “One moment of awakening can reverse a lifetime of sleepwalking.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “Unlike happiness, unhappiness cannot happen without the presence of an ego.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “An unchecked ego essentially becomes a hyper sense of separation. You become more and more a fragment in your own experience. People around you are seen as others. Relating to people becomes difficult. the “other” people are most seen as different from you when they are your enemies. Your sense of separation drives you to try to secure as much as possible for yourself. You need to be better then the others! Where the sense of connection to the world around you should be, there is an emptiness. This can lead to trying to find yourself in the material world through relationships, consumerism, or drugs.” ― DM
- “Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Sometimes humility is ego in disguise.” ― Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
- “We find it very difficult to assimilate and accept the idea that those close to us can advice us correctly; so we see it as humiliating and demeaning that we are better not listening to them. We must grow out of this ego in other to enact change that the world will reckon with” ― Victor Vote
- “[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego’s immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.” ― Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom
- “Oh, Ego. I see your wound. The pain you must be in.” ― Donny Cates, Silver Surfer: Black
- “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.” ― Nikita Dudani
- “If talking to yourself when alone is a sign of madness, then listening to yourself in front of others is doubly so.” ― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- “God’ is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life; ‘Ego’ is whatever within you stops you taking it.” ― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
- “If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.” ― Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
- “Painful experiences of the past are carved on your ego. Peel off all layers of your ego and you will find your spotless, pure and shining soul underneath.” ― Shunya
- “Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.” ― Kale Burton
- “The memory of having sat at someone’s feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. I’m trying to fend off your admiration for me, you see, in order to save myself from your future contempt. I prefer to put up with my present state of loneliness rather than suffer more loneliness later. We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It’s the price we pay for these times of ours.” ― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro
- “So, Freckles,” he said when I sat down. “Freckles?” I interrupted. “You said I couldn’t call ya, Katie-cat.” I shuddered. “I do have a given name, you know.” “I don’t want to call you what everyone else calls you.” “You don’t?” “Nope.” “Why?” I asked suspiciously. “Because I’m special.” “There goes that ego of yours again.” I held out my arms wide. “Big,” I mouthed.” ― Cambria Hebert, Torch
- “Normality? Keeping one’s insanity a secret.” ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land