T Quotes
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“The ego is the banal, the ratio the aggravated, the soul the noble. / Das Ego ist das Banale, die Ratio das Verschärfte, die Seele das Edle.”
“The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.”
“The Ego is the ‘thing’ that you’ve created to keep hiding from your Shadow, convinced that it’s all the ‘light’ or ‘good’ things about you – when in reality, the ego is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’ because it’s totally unreal.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“The ego is the ultimate conspirator.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.”
“The ego is wired by fear, fuelled by separation, drunk on unworthy thoughts, and not fit to rule your life.”
Source: The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight
“The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.”
“The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego itself, the I in each one of us, is perhaps a divine dimension.”
“The ego knows itself by comparison.”
“The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person’s life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.”
“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.”
“The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.”
“The ego of a narcissist survives off the fuel from various things, work is only one, but a vital one for an empty ego.”
Source: Torn From the Inside Out
“The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The ego of the mind can entrap you in a web of dilution.”
Source: Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
“The ego, once seen as the adversary to our true self, becomes an ally on the journey, a necessary companion on the road to enlightenment. It is through the lens of the ego that we interact with the world, but it is with the guidance of the essence that we navigate it with grace and purpose.”
Source: The 7 Laws of Quantum Power
“The ego only understands love from a survival perspective. It doesn’t understand love from a deeper, spiritual perspective.”
Source: Reconnect to Love: A Journey From Loneliness to Deep Connection
“The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.”
“The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.”
Source: Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want
“The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.”
“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”
“The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.”
Source: Major Works
“The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite”
Source: Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
“The ego says, win the world to find peace. The spirit says, win yourself over to find peace.”
“The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.”
“The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.”
“The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.”
“The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.”
“The ego, vanity, jealousy and such other flaws define the imperceptive attitude and fly silently, towards self-victimizing.”
“The ego wants to go fast. The soul needs to go slow.”
“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?”
“The ego will give you a kiss... then pickpocket your wallet.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“The ego will say in its dying defence that, without it, we will be nothing and that, as faulty as it is, it is better than nothing. Put it down anyway. Just for a moment. Look at yourself honestly. Try to speak truthfully to those around you. Do not be afraid to be disliked or misunderstood. Believe that there are wonderful things in life that are waiting for you.”
Source: Love's Longing
“The ego's blocking the light from coming.”
“The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.”
“The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises”
Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.”
“The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.”
“The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.”
Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
“The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.”