Quotes About Ego

The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.

A man's praises have very musical and charming accents in another's mouth; but very flat and untuneable in his own.

Au diable la reconnaissance si elle est dispensée par des gens qui ne t'arrivent pas à la cheville.

Tous les drames sont possibles lorsqu'un amour-propre est bafoué

egocentric melodrama.

Thinking too much about oneself is a cause of much suffering," the Dalai Lama said. "Anxiety, depression, resentment, fear—these become much worse with too much attention to the self. The mantra Me, me, me is not so good.

We all need to let go—especially of our preoccupations with ourselves.

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

religious leader." Such pride is very dangerous

Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness

The mind would like us to think that there is such a thing as "justifiable anger," which takes the form of moralistic indignation. If we look at moralistic indignation, we will see that it is propped up by vanity and pride. We like to think how right we are in a situation and how "wrong" the other persons are.

We do not let go of control on our own. Usually, something has to happen that shows us incontrovertibly that we are not in control. From this condition of bankrupt ego, we finally let go. Great losses are thus necessary losses like the discarded sandbags that lighten a balloon so it can ascend higher.

Delusion happens when we see all that is from the viewpoint of the self. Enlightenment happens when we see ourselves from the viewpoint of the things in nature.

anything that crosses swords with our entitled ego is a powerful source of transformation and inner evolution.

success in managing fear prevents us from ever facing it fully. Surrender to it ventilates our souls so that fear becomes an old pickpocket who has lost his skill to steal from us. How ironic that our ego lives in dread of such a surrender! Avoiding it annuls its arrival today, but it keeps coming back, subpoena in hand. Here we fear what would free us. So we lose when we win. The same applies to the Void. To avoid is to win but lose. Facing our Void is all that will free us from it. One

The fact that things do not always go according to plan means that many powers beyond ego are at work in our lives—powers that lead us to our destiny by a path we might have neglected.

We sit as a practice for how we will act throughout the day. Mindfulness, however, involves more than sitting. It is moment by moment non-clinging to ego. It is the simplicity that results when we experience reality without the clutter produced by the decorative arts of ego.

Attention means bringing something or someone into focus so it is no longer blurred by the projections of your own ego; thus it requires genuine interest and curiosity about the mysterious and surprising truth that is you.

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —SUSAN B. ANTHONY

People with "new" money and those who look in the mirror and think they can be a model are the same type. They just don't get it and they never will.