Quotes About Ego

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration.

When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.

What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.

When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Would you rather be right or free?

The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'.

As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

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.

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

The ego is the seeker but does not want the Truth.