“Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.” PeopleFirstsLittlesSaidImportantSelfSufferingCultureTakenTroubleModernEgoRewardsTrue SelfMedalInner LifeIdentificationAway From YouModern Culture Author:Richard Rohr
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.” NeedsStoriesOrderCoursesOpinionPositionPerspectiveEgoJudgementIdentification Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.” WaitingEgoMiseryIdentification Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.” ThinkingMeanSelfEmotionEgoAbsenceTrappedIdentificationThoughts And Emotions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.” FeelingsPathSpecialEgoUniqueFemaleExcitementAttachmentIdentification Author:Andrew Cohen
“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.” HumansLyingEmotionGreaterViolencePlanetsCitizensEgoNormalRootsCriminalsInsaneInsanityCollectivesRespectableIdentificationDerangedThoughts And Emotions Author:Eckhart Tolle
“As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.” NeedsMindGamesRolesReturnMetsEgoIdentificationPlaying Games Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.” IfsWantFeelsI CanBookRealDoneStoriesSpiritualFormSunDogIdentityPrayingMoonEgoBirdBlameScriptureObjectivesIdentificationDisconnectedI Can Read Author:Alanis Morissette
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.” PersonsBeliefSocialReligiousAbilityCommonKnowledgeSpecialAwarenessEgoSelf AwarenessPossessionAppearanceRecognitionCollectivesIdentificationBelief SystemsPower Of NowFamily HistorySpiritual AwarenessEducation And KnowledgeSocial StatusPhysical AppearanceNationalisticStillness SpeaksPower Of Now Book Author:Eckhart Tolle
“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.” ThinkingGivingTryingMindBelieveRealHardStatesSpiritualFearParticularProductsEgoNegativeWesternEnvyState Of MindResentmentIdentificationSupremacyBeliveWestern SocietyJealousy And EnvyAnger Resentment Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.” Has BeensStillsSelfStatesStrongMeditationEgoRemainsConstantAwakeningSupremeImpressionAgentsRealisedIdentificationObstinate Author:Adi Shankara
“Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.” WorldTryingSpiritualDesireSupportAchieveMaterialsLetting GoEgoFoolishAriseBlissIdentificationMaterial WorldSupport Systems Author:Ayya Khema
“Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.” WayMaterialsEgoConcernAbsolutesMental HealthPossessionGenuineBalancedObsessiveIdentificationPragmaticMaterial Possessions Author:Fritjof Capra
“As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-identity expands beyond the ego, into the deeper psychic, then even into the Unborn and One Taste, the ego is simply taken up and subsumed in a grander identity. But the ego itself remains as the functional self in the gross realm, and it might even appropriately be intensified and made more powerful, simply because it is now plugged into the entire Kosmos.” MadeSaidSelfProblemMightPowerfulTakenIdentityTasteEgoRemainsDeeperRealmsPsychicsGrossExclusiveUnbornIdentificationSelf Identity Author:Ken Wilber
“Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.” IdeasSelfBecomingEgoIdentification Author:Jack Kornfield
“The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.” MindBodyFormEgoConceptsIdentification Author:Eckhart Tolle