If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.
~ Debasish Mridha
The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.
I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.
To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.
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.
The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.
If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.
I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don’t even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God’s plans undo what I’ve done that’s undoing me.
I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.
Our learned egocentric and judgmental consciousness is the source of unhappiness; however, universal consciousness is always blissful.
If your level of anger or bitterness is not leading to a change in your life or relationship, it is because your ego is dominating.
~ Kemi Sogunle
Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?
Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.
If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.
If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.
If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.
If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.
Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
Preachers love only their own voices.
~ John Berger
If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.
Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!
~ Ana Claudia Antunes
Greed is the fast-track to poverty.
We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?
The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.
Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.
I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.
Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.
I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.
If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.
Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!
~ Ramana Pemmaraju
People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.
~ Duop Chak Wuol
Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your EGO, you turn them into a commodity and thats why every relationship gets ruined. Mind YOU!
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
