Quotes About Ego

Vijaya is conventional victory, victory over the other, over other's minds, a victory where there are winners and losers. Jaya, on the other hand, is victory over oneself, over one's mind, a victory where there are no losers. At

Failure to see the other stopped the mind from expanding. It started contracting, crumpling and getting knotted. It became all about me and mine, not you and yours. Limitless Brahmana thus became the limited Brahma.

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.

What better substitute for real love than a sea of eager faces, beaming, laughing, applauding, and celebrating your existence?

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Prokofiev and I never did become friends, probably because Prokofiev was not inclined towards friendly relations in general. He was a hard man and didn't seem interested in anything than himself and his music.

You do not need to be the designated driver of someone's intoxicated ego.

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

He didn't know why he was lying. Perhaps because his vanity was being engaged, and he wasn't above attending to his vanity.

Self-understanding is the prelude to transformation, to moving beyond the ego and all that makes up what is called "false personality.

If you have an overdeveloped ego, you are not scared of surrender.

inner sanctuary to which the beleaguered ego repairs in time of crisis is also a world that opens onto transpersonal energies.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.