Ego Quotes

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

~ Giordano Bruno

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

~ Jacob M. Held

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

~ H. Rider Haggard

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

~ Maria Erving

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.

~ Maria Erving

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

~ Maria Erving

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.

~ Maria Erving

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

~ Maria Erving

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.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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.

~ Frank Wanderer

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!!

~ Frank Wanderer

To the ego, love is poison.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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 killing the planet in order to keep intact the wrongheaded assumptions of the ego-dominator cultural style.

~ Terence Mckenna

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

~ A.j. Darkholme

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.

~ Idries Shah

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

~ 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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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?

~ Girdhar Joshi

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.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

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.

~ Joseph Campbell

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

~ David Foster Wallace

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

~ Kellie Elmore

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

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Munindra Misra

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

~ Alan Cohen

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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Roshan Sharma

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't much of a compass to go by.

~ Stephen Jenkinson

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

~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

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

~ Deborrah Cooper

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Pearl Zhu

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Criss Jami

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 met someone who undressed himself, standing completely naked, with all his horrible wounds. Hence I also undressed, and I saw my horrible wounds, which he could also see. Then...

~ Franco Santoro

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

~ Albert Camus

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’!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~ William Hazlitt