Ego Quotes - Page 2

• The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Friends, Decision, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.127, Penguin

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• The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

  Alan Watts

  Focus, Attention, Conscious

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.21, Sounds True

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• In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Humor

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

  Steve Pavlina

  Work, Smart, Purpose

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• Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Business, Ego Problem, Goal

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• Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fear, Real

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• It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

  Bell Hooks

  Fun, Women, Moving

  "Bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humorous, Profound, Insane

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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• The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Problem, Our Lives

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• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Solitude, Complaining

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 42, 1990.

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• All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

  Cyril Connolly

  Appreciation, People, Literature

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 16

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• The ego is a fascinating monster.

  Alanis Morissette

  Monsters, Fascinating

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.

  Cullen Hightower

  Silent, Partners, Interest

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• Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Becoming, Conflict, Ifs

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• It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

  Eberhard Weber

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• Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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• Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Men, Land

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.194, Penguin

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• If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.

  Deepak Chopra

  Want, Bliss, States

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• Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Freedom, Enlightenment

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• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Faults, Misery, Source

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  Kevin Spacey

  Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity - only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved. And this becomes a problem.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Integrity, Problem

  "My Way: The Way of the White Clouds". Book by Osho, 1995.

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• The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Teaching, Persistence

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• Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Adding Value, Want

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 29, 2011

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• A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Self, Attention

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.62, Penguin

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