Quotes About Ego

In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.

Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.

The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity.

La mente egotista colectiva es la entidad más peligrosamente demente y destructiva que jamás habitó este planeta.

To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly —you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Para el ego, el momento presente casi no existe. Lo único que se considera importante es el pasado y el futuro. Esta inversión total de la verdad es la causante de que en su "modalidad ego", la mente sea tan disfuncional. Está siempre preocupada de mantener el pasado vivo porque sin él ¿quién es usted? Se proyecta constantemente hacia el futuro para asegurar su supervivencia y para buscar algún tipo de alivio o de realización en él.

preocu-parse". A veces esta pista de sonido va acompañada por imágenes visuales o "películas mentales". Incluso si la voz es relevante para la situación del momento, la interpretará de acuerdo con el pasado. Esto se debe a que la voz pertenece a su mente condicionada

Egos are drawn to bigger egos.

When forms that you had identified with, that gave you your sense of self, collapse or are taken away, it can lead to a collapse of the ego, since ego is identification with form.

because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. Whether you complain aloud or only in thought makes no difference. Some

It will attempt to ensure its survival by finding something else to identity with, for example, a mental image of yourself as someone who has transcended all interest in material possessions and is therefore superior, is more spiritual than others. There are people who have renounced all possessions but have a bigger ego than some millionaires.

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease.

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he's dreaming. You would be as identified with thought as a dreamer is with every image in the dream.

The collective egoic mind is the most dangerously insane and destructive entity ever to inhabit this planet.

Ese mal uso da lugar a creencias y afirmaciones absurdas y a engaños del ego, tales como "Mi o nuestro Dios es el único Dios verdadero y tu Dios es falso" o la famosa afirmación de Nietzsche "Dios ha muerto". La palabra Dios se ha convertido en un concepto cerrado.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional.

Even such a seemingly trivial and normal thing as the compulsive need to be right in an argument and make the other person wrong- defending the mental position with which you have identified- is due to fear of death.

There's only one thing worse than the egoic me, and that's the egoic us.

The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now. Or maybe it does know, and it is afraid that you may find this out. Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Or it reduces the present to a means to an end, an end that always lies in the mind-projected future.