Quotes About Ego

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Offended self-love never forgives.

I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.