Quotes About Ego

Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler—that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.

You don't trust anyone. Except yourself, and that's not trust, that's ego." "Not ego. Awareness of my abilities. And the limitless nature of them.

Arrogance, like anger, is often a fatal flaw.

Denying realism amounts to megalomania.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.

Modesty alone doesn't prove a man a hero. But it's incontrovertible that immodesty makes him a bore.

I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me," Napoleon vaunted.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In man the Spirit becomes the ego in order that the ego may become pure Spirit; the Spirit becomes ego by incarnating in the mind in the form of intellection, of truth, and the ego becomes the Spirit through uniting with it.

Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

The Work is about making personality passive, a servant rather than a master.

Most of the contemporary beings acquire in their presence a very strange need to evoke the expression in others of the being-impulse 'astonishment' regarding themselves, or even simply to notice it on the faces of those around.

being entranced by the ego prevents us from feeling pain; in fact, it prevents us from feeling anything—ecstasy, grief, compassion, anger, shame, love—from feeling alive.

If spiritual practices serve the purpose of stopping the mind, they are strong allies. But if they deepen the belief that you are someone in particular who practices something in particular in order to get something that you do not believe is already here, then they are an obstruction.

the ego is just a thought — and thoughts can be changed.

The Disappearance of the Universe

what the Course is teaching is that you can undo the ego that's in your mind, have the Holy Spirit heal all of your unconscious guilt, and be free. The fastest way to do that is to change the way you look at other people, events, and situations. It also teaches you how to do that.