- “Our reputations are so out of our control that it’s laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to “control” them.” ― Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
- “I have my own ego, greed, love and a passion but sometime that same greed and ego kneels me down. In that moment I don’t kneel and cry for my ego but I will clear a dirt over my pant and run for my passion. Ego can kill us but not your passion not your love. Move On!!!” ― Sakin Maharjan
- “Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.” ― Eckhart Tolle
- “Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “What is meant figuratively by ‘mindfulness’ is meant literally by ‘mindlessness’.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.” ― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
- “finding mistakes in others is a human nature that satisfies the alter ego” ― sireesh kondra
- “Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” ― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
- “Love is a battle where one has to die for others EGO.” ― pavankumarguptha
- “In fact, without renunciation (tyaag), nothing [no spiritual development] can happen. Renunciation of what? Complete renunciation of illusion (bhranti)! Complete renunciation of the ego (ahamkar)!! Complete renunciation of the my-ness (mamata)!!!” ― Dada Bhagwan, Harmony in Marriage
- “Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.” ― Toba Beta
- “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
- “When you’ve been invited in and offered a seat at the table, good table manners also includes checking your ego. Otherwise, you won’t be at the table nor in the room for very long.” ― Sabrina Newby
- “Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.” ― Frank M. Wanderer
- “The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.” ― Lalah Delia
- “I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.” ― Bede Griffiths
- “Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “You may be anybody now. One day, you will be just a faded memory.” ― Aditya Ajmera
- “Be so much of a man that your woman has no reason to sound like your mother.” ― VaeEshia Ratcliff Davis
- “If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “All we can really do is nothing but be aware. In fact, we are nothing but awareness.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
- “First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “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.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
- “If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.” ― Dave Donovan, The Gift
- “Boasting may be an expressive ego whereas avoiding boasting definitely is a suppressive ego.” ― Fahad Basheer
- “One moment of awakening can reverse a lifetime of sleepwalking.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Is that to say that managing your image isn’t important? Of course not. Early in your career, you’ll notice that you jump on every opportunity to do so. As you become more accomplished, you’ll realize that so much of it is a distraction from your work – time spent with reporters, with awards, and with marketing are time away from what you really care about. Who has time to look at a picture of himself? What’s the point?” ― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy