“The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.” WantLittlesDesireSuccessfulKingsSucceedDemandLimitsEgoUniversalIncreaseCompetitionSatisfied Author:Gelek Rimpoche
“We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.” WayPersonsSelfFactsDreamWantedDesireResponsibilityTreeEgoWho We AreAttributesDreadGood PersonVery DeepLoopsHallucinationsEverestMount Everest Author:Douglas Hofstadter
“Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.” DesireRealizingSpaceEgoSacredAbsenceRealizationImpulseTiesIntimateAspirationAspireTime And SpaceInnateLimitlessFullnessVibrationsLiberatedPlenitude Author:Daniel Odier
“Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.” WantDoeDesireEnergyPoorPowerfulRichWiseEgoBreathsIgnorantWretchedAbsorbing Author:Rajneesh
“Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).” HeartLongDoeSelfBodyUsedDesireWealthPerfectPleasureConsciousnessEgoSupremeOnenessAttachmentRealisingRealisation Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.” FactsSpiritualSpiritDesireOrderGrowthAnswersPerfectPracticeForeverMissingEgoMindfulnessEnlightenmentSeekingDenyTendenciesMotiveEnlightenedGraspingSpiritual EnlightenmentPerfect Practice Author:Ken Wilber
“When we feel we are powerless our ego most wants to change the things in our world. As we realize we have the power to change our reality the maturity that comes with that understanding changes us, and we find ourselves in acceptance of what is with less desire of feeling our need to change the world around us.” WorldWantNeedsFeelsFeelingsRealityDesireUnderstandingRealizingAcceptanceEgoMaturityChanging The WorldOur WorldPowerlessNeed A ChangePower To Change Author:Gregg Braden
“Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.” PeopleInspirationalMayGodDesireNaturalSleepSimpleMoneyEgoGoodnessGod LoveDawnFormulasSubmissionNatural LoveSimple Love Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.” LongDesirePassionLove IsEgoLongingAttachment Author:Rajneesh
“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.” PeopleHas BeensMadeRealSelfPainFormDesireGoalLossCompassionTeacherHumilityTaughtLetting GoEgoDepthLimitationSuperficial Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.” DesireEgoPartners Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .” BelieveDesireEgoSacredBoundariesDespiteBelovedVirtuousTimelessnessPlayfulnessSexual Desire Author:Deepak Chopra