Quotes about Ego

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God.

When the phenomenal ego transcends itself, the essential Self is free to realize, in terms of a finite consciousness, the fact of its own eternity, together with the correlative fact that every particular in the world of experience partakes of the timeless and the infinite. This is liberation, this is enlightenment, this is the beatific vision, in which all things are perceived as they are "in themselves" and not in relation to a craving and abhorring ego.

He was wondering how anyone could talk so loud, could boast so extravagantly. It was as though the man had to shout in order to convince himself of his own existence.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

There's a difference somewhere." Being a supreme egotist Ardita frequently