Quotes About Ego

No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.

Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism.

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.

But what was it all about? Ego, that's all. There was no love there. Just a lot of drinking and a lot of ego. Both of them will kill you. They

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

The machos have migraine: "Not tonight, darling, I love me". (Les machos ont la migraine: - "Pas ce soir, chéri, je m' aime".)

The pride blurs us the eye.It is our alcohol. (L'orgueil nous brouille l'oeil. Il est notre alcool)

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.

O! there are many kinds of pride," said Biddy, looking full at me and shaking her head; "pride is not all of one kind—

I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...

Oh self, self, self! At every turn nothing but self!

It is the cry of the separate self, 'What about me?' As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn't matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.

Today's usury-money is part of a story of separation, in which 'more for me is less for you.' That is the essence of interest: I will only "share" money with you if end up with even more of it in return. On the systemic level as well, interest on money creates competition, anxiety and the polarization of wealth. Meanwhile, the phrase 'more for me is less for you' is also the motto of the ego, and a truism given the discrete and separate self of modern economics, biology, and philosophy.

Pride never admits its failures. Instead, the prideful person continues to push forward, blindly seeking self-gratification.

Pride entices us to favor people who build up our egos. Everyone wants to feel accepted and loved. The best way to rid your life of pride is to surround yourself with people who care for you for the right reasons and not just to stroke your ego. Pride is

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!