Quotes About Ego

The ego in its purity is experienced in intervals between two states or two thoughts. Ego is like that caterpillar which leaves its hold only after catching another. Its true nature can be found when it is out of contact with objects or thoughts.

when there is no 'I' there is no karma.

The reply comes as a current of awareness in the Heart, fitful at first and only achieved by intense effort, but gradually increasing in power and constancy, becoming more spontaneous, acting as a check on thoughts and actions, undermining the ego, until finally the ego disappears and the certitude of pure Consciousness remains.

While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault?

The body which is matter says not 'I'. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of 'I'. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.

All religions first postulate three principles, the world, the soul and God. To say that one principle alone appears as the three principles or that the three principles are always three principles is possible only as long as the ego exists.1

When the I is divested of the I, only the I remains.

If the idea 'I am the body' is accepted, the selves are multiple. The state in which this idea vanishes is the Self since in that state there are no other objects.

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!

Never endorse other's emotions just for their ego gratification, it will ruin your peace!

Taking pride in your own worthiness makes you unworthy!

You have treasured your MIND more than your 'SELF' and that's the primary source of unhappiness!

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!

The ego is the maya. Now, what is maya? It's the sense of personal doership.

Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special? It doesn't.

than coasting along as a self-impressed elitist behind a desk.

A PBR wasn't just a brand of blue-collar beer, it was also someone who was not dominated by neurosis, ambition, or ego. It was a person who was relatively honest, rational, and reasonable most of the time; a man or woman who had a general sense of his or her own worth and limitations, who acknowledged the worth of others, who demonstrated a sense of humor, and didn't take him- or herself too seriously.

Raymond Tullock is like most men. His balls tell hiim he should be in charge, but his brain's just not big enough to steer the load.

Man made is a bigger brand But Man is Big brand

The Self says 'I AM'–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means 'I AM'), I AM is the way and the truth and the life–but the ego says 'I am this' or 'I am that,' thus attaching itself only to a small portion of the Vastness. (62)

Don't allow the ego fruit to ripen before it falls.

We only kill each other to see ourselves as heroes in our fathers' stories.

You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

If I'm on a card, I should be the main event.