Quotes About Ego

Fantasies act to "nourish" the ego in the form of a partial gratification and thus can contribute to psychological equilibrium when security or satisfaction from the real environment is lacking.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is enlightenment.

One suffers because of the idea that the body is "I". Misery

If this tendency to identify itself with objects is destroyed, the ego merges into its Source.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]

The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.

So long as "mind" survives, "religion" will also exist. But no religion will persist in the silence that results from looking within. It is the ego that comes up, in the form of saying, "my religion should be embraced by all.

The sage's ego has died, thus he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer; instead, like an actor playing his part in a drama—free from [emotions such as] "love" or "hate." Then, there is no agitation of mind, sense of doership, and personality: when all that is stopped, there is quiet, stillness.

The wise one lives without the feeling of I-ness or mine-ness. What is this I, or what is "mine"? Be devoid of the feeling of mine-ness and I-ness, knowing for certain that Nothing is—in Me, individual selves rise and disappear.

In other words, if you were to build into the brain a component in charge of public relations, it would look something like the conscious self.

We think we're better than average at not being biased in thinking that we're better than average.

Certainly the prefrontal cortex is an important thing; I'm as proud of mine as the next guy.

And don't feel like you're committing a felony-level violation of Buddhist dogma just because you think of yourself as being a self.

Y tal vez eso es lo que es el «yo», lo que «tú» eres, una vez que se abandona la idea de yo: un tipo de forma de conciencia purificada.

According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine,' selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems. It is the source of all the troubles in the world from personal conflicts to wars between nations. In short, to this false view can be traced all the evil in the world.

According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine,' selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems.

Was it the voice of a demon? It did not take me long to discover that it was my own voice, the voice of my superego guiding my dream like a pilot with nerves of steel, it was the super-I driving a refrigerated truck down the middle of a road engulfed in flames, while the id groaned and rambled on in a vaguely Mycenaean jargon. My ego, of course, was sleeping. Sleeping and toiling.

Ever notice folks can justify damned near anything, 'cause they're always the heroes n their own stories?

There is monstrous vanity in the pride we take in our children

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Christianity as a belief system requires nothing but acquiescence. Christianity as a way of life, as a path to follow, requires a second birth, the conquest of ego, and new eyes with which to see the world. It is no wonder that we have preferred to be saved.

The world says, "Push to the front of the line!" Jesus says, "Go to the back of the line." The world says, "Brand yourself and blast your accomplishments all over social media!" Jesus says, "If you want to be great you have to first learn to serve.

My mother thinks my apartment is too big, but I fill it with my ego