Quotes About Ego

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it.

Nota: la mente es un instrumento magnífico si se usa correctamente. Utilizada en forma inadecuada, sin embargo, se vuelve muy destructiva. Para decirlo en forma más exacta, no es tanto que usted la utilice inadecuadamente, generalmente usted no la utiliza en absoluto. Ella lo utiliza a usted. Esa es la enfermedad. Usted cree que usted es su mente. Ese es el engaño. El instru-mento se ha apoderado de usted.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker.

When you confuse the ego that you perceive in others with their identity, it is the work of your own ego that uses this misperception to strengthen itself through being right and therefore superior, and through reacting with condemnation, indignation, and often anger against the perceived enemy.

Solamente la Presencia puede liberarnos del ego y solamente podemos estar presentes Ahora, no ayer ni mañana. Solamente la Presencia puede deshacer el pasado que llevamos sobre los hombros y transformar nuestro estado de conciencia.

There is nothing the ego likes less than to hear about itself.

When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

la mente es un instrumento magnífico si se usa correctamente. Utilizada en forma inadecuada, sin embargo, se vuelve muy destructiva. Para decirlo en forma más exacta, no es tanto que usted la utilice inadecuadamente, generalmente usted no la utiliza en absoluto. Ella lo utiliza a usted. Esa es la enfermedad. Usted cree que usted es su mente. Ese es el engaño. El instrumento se ha apoderado de usted.

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away. The

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Never personalize Christ. Don't make Christ into a form identity. Avatars, divine mothers, enlightened masters, the very few that are real, are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold, defend, and feed, they are more simple, more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman. Anyone with a strong ego would regard them as insignificant or, more likely, not see them at all.

The ego perceives itself as a separate fragment in a hostile universe, with no real inner connection to any other being, surrounded by other egos which it either sees as a potential threat or which it will attempt to use for its own ends.

At the core of all utopian visions lies one of the main structural dysfunctions of the old consciousness: looking to the future for salvation. The only existence the future actually has is as a thought form in your mind, so when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation. You are trapped in form, and that is ego.

Most of the so-called bad things that happen in people's lives are due to unconsciousness. They are self-created, or rather ego-created.

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over.

the ego is a derived sense of self...

Even mainstream medicine, although it knows very little about how the ego operates yet, is beginning to recognize the connection between negative emotional states and physical disease.

When you feel the pain-body, don't fall into the error of thinking there is something wrong with you. Making yourself into the problem -- the ego loves that. The knowing needs to be followed by accepting.

Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego.

All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve. In the case of the ego, most of the challenges it encounters are self-created through its unconscious patterns. Eventually, the ego brings about its own demise.

the negative and the positive polarities are faces of the same coin, are both part of the underlying pain that is inseparable from the mind-identified egoic state of consciousness. There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain — this is what I want to talk about now.