Quotes About Ego

Some people are just in love with the sound of their voices. They don't listen; they simply wait until the other person stops talking so they can start speaking again. They view the time during which another person is talking as a resting period for their vocal cords.

The I is a concept that resists its own nullity as if life depended upon it.

El orgullo herido puede alentar a un hombre a hacer cosas maravillosas

El orgullo es absurdo, pero es una fuerza poderosa.

You would be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.

El orgullo es el lujo de los fuertes.

If there is one thing I will not abide, it is the folly of a willful pride.

You'd be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.

Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force.

Pride not only precedes a fall, but often hangs around a while longer to see what other damage it can do.

was doing the will of Allah, therefore he knew Allah would allow no harm to come to him. Of course, he had no reason for this conclusion, other than his own ego and misguided notions of what the divine creator wished of his children. He assumed that the divine would obey his wishes, instead of realizing it should be the opposite.

one candidate desperately shovels money down a pit, and the other builds empty edifices in his own name,

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects

No digo que sea malo. Es joven, simplemente. Demasiado literario, demasiado orgulloso de su propia inteligencia.

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

The second is to grasp the essential nature of the ego and of the universe and to obtain direct perception that both are nothing but a series of ideas which unfold themselves within our minds.

What is the key to the Short Path? It is threefold. First, stop searching for the Overself since it follows you wherever you go. Second, believe in its Presence, with and within you. Third, keep on trying to understand its truth until you can abandon further thoughts about it. You cannot acquire what is already here. So drop the ego's false idea and affirm the real one.

The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily hearing from outward sound, then penetrates still deeper into the void beyond this duality, then beyond ego and its object, until all opposites and dualities vanish, leaving absoluteness. Nirvana follows as a natural consequence. In other words, disengage consciousness from the senses and return to pure Consciousness itself.

In the early stages of enlightenment, the aspirant is overwhelmed by his discovery that God is within himself. It stirs his intensest feelings and excites his deepest thoughts. But, though he does not know it, those very feelings and thoughts still form part of his ego, albeit the highest part. So he still separates his being into two—self and Overself. Only in the later stages does he find that God not only is within himself but is himself.

There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over from doing, trying, and managing things by his own self alone and when he can let go and open himself to the higher force--when he can submit his ego to its ordinances, its commands, or to its whispers.