Quotes about Ego

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can't feed them both.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

The ego fiercely protects its view of the world, and we've all experienced how wispy and fleeting any experience can be when it doesn't fit our ingrained belief system.

The ego wants to acquire things out of insecurity, out of a sense of lack. Remind yourself that everything comes and goes except the soul. It's from the soul that a person gains a sense of inner fulfillment. The soul lacks nothing and therefore has no anxiety about the outside world: gain is not a need, loss is not a threat.

The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

In everyday situations, getting out of the way begins by giving up on the ego's fantasies.