Best ego & compassion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.”

Persons Has Beens Two Suffering Compassion Virtue Ego Available Shells Great Love Equanimity

Author:Richard Rohr

“To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence.”

Thinking Way Feels Self Views Compassion Depends Involved Ego Salvation Including All Time Transcendence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.”

Persons Religious Compassion Hell Humility Ego Spring Gateways

Author:Dada Vaswani

“Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.”

Success Spirituality Understanding Compassion Ego Surrender Evolve Realms Materialism

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”

“I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.”

Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

“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.”

Reason Lying Numbers Compassion Enemy Teaching Ego Foundation Persistence Wipe Ego And Soul

Author:Dalai Lama

“Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.”

Energy Compassion Meditation Moon Ego Anger Greed Lust Humbleness Receptivity Aggressiveness Anger Love

Author:Rajneesh

“I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'”

Ifs Has Beens Able Voice Love Is Inspiring Compassion Love You Arms Ego Ears Towns Grateful China Thoughtful Loving Life Say I Love You Harlem I Am Grateful

Author:Maya Angelou

“Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It dethrones the ego from the center of our lives and puts others there, breaking down the carapace of the selfishness that holds us back from an experience of the sacred. And it gives us ecstasy, broadening our perspectives and giving us a larger, enhanced vision.”

Giving Mean Has Beens Found Compassion Vision Our Lives Perspective Ego Enlightenment Sacred Selfishness Ecstasy Breaking Down Great Faith

Book:The Spiral Staircase

Source: The Spiral Staircase

“True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.”

“I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.”

Inspirational Trying Believe Different Hard Bigs Inspiration Success Purpose I Believe Compassion Positive Planets Ego Stuck Powerful Women Big Picture Successful Women Working Women

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.”

Feels Passion Compassion Ego Violent Aggressive Within You

Author:Rajneesh

“Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.”

Hard Compassion Cry Sorrow Ego

Author:Taitetsu Unno

“Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for.”

Feels Shows Order Understanding Compassion Greater Gratitude Ego Grateful Appreciation You Choose Frustrated Be Grateful Backseat Being Frustrated

Book:What I Know For Sure

Source: What I Know For Sure

“There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.”

People Has Beens Made Real Self Pain Form Desire Goal Loss Compassion Teacher Humility Taught Letting Go Ego Depth Limitation Superficial

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.”

Humans Spirituality Three Existence Compassion Path Conditions Letting Go Ego Unconditional Human Existence Intersections

Author:David Richo

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