T Quotes
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“The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.”
“The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that ‘I died’. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle.”
“The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.”
“The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.”
“The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.”
“The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.”
Source: Bioenergetics
“The ego hates losing – even to God.”
Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.”
“The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.”
“The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.”
“The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.”
“The ego is a fascinating monster.”
“The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.”
“The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.”
“The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.”
“The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.”
“The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.”
“The ego is a very bad quality. Ego sees everything as separate; it sees everything as dual. You must remove this ego and see only the Unity. Think only of Unity; think only of the basis of everything.”
“The ego is always looking for support because, essentially, it is very afraid and is constantly failing to give us the happiness it promises. It doesn't know what it is doing. It has delusions of grandeur that unfailingly disappoint. It is a poor guide and companion compared to the spirit, albeit, a loud one. There is a beautiful grandeur in us. If we claim it, we would never again turn to the trifling and pathetic attempts of the ego at grandiosity.”
Source: Love's Longing
“The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there.”
“The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.”
“The ego is an illusion. The more we submit to its cravings, the more unhappy we become.”
“The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.”
“The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.”
Source: The analysis of sensations
“The ego is constantly on guard and looking for all the ways it will be betrayed and hurt. If we listen with our fears then almost everything is a threat. If we listen with our spirit then no offence is taken. The voice we listen to changes our perception.”
Source: Together
“The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.”
“The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.”
Source: The Long and the Short and the All
“The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.”
Source: Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
“The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.”
“The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.”
“The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.”
“The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.”
“The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.”
“The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost”
“The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the Divine, and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego itself”
Source: One Taste
“The ego is not dragged kicking and screaming to the feet of the higher self; it leaps for joy into its waiting arms. The ego is relieved to know there is an alternative to the pain it has known and its fear, attachment, and entitlement.”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.”
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
“The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego is not who we are, it is who we think we are. When we think of our name, our image, our history, and our life experiences as who we are, we become associated with an idea of ourselves, a mental image that is not at all who we are in reality.”
Source: Awake to What Is: Discovering Peace in the Present Moment
“The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.”
“The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.”
Source: Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
“The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel that you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any way. Don't go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.”
“The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.”
Source: The Secrets of the Self
“The ego is so powerful it takes the course for or against, pro or con, to it's bodily host. If we are not presently aware of it's seductive nature, it makes a fool of prideful ignorance.”
“The ego is terrified of emptiness and nothingness, and thrives on filling itself up with mental or tangible content. However, a sincere and courageous heart is willing to let go in the face of the unknown for the expansion of it's inner Being—an expansion of which the egoic mind has no awareness or understanding.”
“The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.”
“The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.”