Quotes About Ego

The term crucifixion means the energy pattern of fear. It represents the limited, negative thinking of the ego, and how it always seeks to limit, contradict or invalidate love. The term resurrection means the energy pattern of love, which transcends fear by replacing it. A miracle worker's function is forgiveness. In performing our function, we become channels for resurrection.

Jesus lived within this world of fear, and perceived only love. Every action, every word, every thought was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. He was a thoroughly purified being. To think about him is to think about, and so to call forth, the perfect love inside ourselves.

The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.

The ego is our pain, but it is what we know and we resist moving out of it.  The effort it takes to grow out of painful patterns often feels more uncomfortable than remaining within them.  Personal growth can be so painful because it can make us ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness.   But the goal of personal growth is the journey out of dark emotional patterns which cause us pain to those which cause us peace.

The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.

Examining the past can help clarify many of our problems, but healing doesn't occur in the past. It occurs in the present. There is practically a mania these days for blaming the events of our childhood for our current despair. What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present. Salvation

My ego mind—my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love—would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.

Just as the 'Holy Spirit was God's answer to the separation, the special relationship was then the ego's answer to the creation of the Holy Spirit.

Accept that God has given each of us a magnificent role to play on Earth merely because we're human; that we were born with a perfect script etched on our hearts; that its not to our personal credit, but to His greater glory, that each of us is brilliant-such are the truths that free us from the ego's lies.

God forgives you. Your mistakes did not change the ultimate truth about you or alter the permanent nature of God's universe. Your ego is not that powerful. Truly atone for your errors, make amends where possible, and you'll be free to begin again.

El ego se disipa y desaparece cuando lo entregamos a las manos de Dios. Son heridas, no maldad, lo que tenemos

Si deseamos una sanación genuina de nuestros corazones—no sólo un arreglar las cosas o vendar la aorta rota del espíritu—debemos cuestionar las suposiciones más fundamentales del ego.

The real war is not without, but within: between ego-based fear and spirit-based love.

The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit.  A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

El ego es como un virus informático que ataca al centro del sistema operativo.

el Espíritu Santo está dentro de nosotros para hacer lo imposible. Él hace por nosotros lo que solos no podemos hacer. Nos presta Su fuerza, y cuando Su mente se une con la nuestra, el pensamiento del ego desaparece.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

Had any one dared to say this truth to me then, I should have bade him go and preach nonsense to children,—but now,—when I recall those white leaves of days that were unrolled before me fresh and blank with every sunrise, and with which I did nothing save scrawl my own Ego in a foul smudge across each one, I tremble, and inwardly pray that I may never be forced to send back my self-written record!

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

How sweet it is to let God purge our souls of ego and bitterness, and to have a little taste of heaven here on earth.

Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it.

Clothed as he was in the garments of misfeasance and bewilderment, there lived in him a deeply arrogant man.

If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. - Ego is the enemy