“Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.” PersonsFormUniverseIgnorancePersonalityEgoManifestationSeparateness Author:Frederick Lenz
“I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.” MovingEnergyForceConsciousnessTeachPureEgoKarmaManifestation Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.” MeanForgetMeditationEgoMethodManifestation Book:Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective Source: Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking. And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.” KnowsFeelsMindHeartMomentsFeelingsBeautifulSpiritualityBeliefSpeakForgetMysteryEgoManifestationSunsetEntityForget YouSeparatenessBeautiful Sunset Author:Rajneesh
“When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.” WorldFirstsWholeFactsAbleLife IsSpiritualityBeliefStepsKnowingEgoCapableFirst TimeWhole WorldAgentsManifestationFirst StepsFacilityFacts Of LifeKnowing The Truth Author:Rajneesh
“With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.” KnowsWayDoeHappensSpiritualityBeliefEgoPerceptionMirrorsAbsenceMediumsManifestationSubtleInterpretationAbyssInterpretingFalsification Author:Rajneesh
“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.” PeopleIfsNeedsRealEndsFeelingsSidesGoalEffortAttentionCasesGroupsTeamEgoDrawsNegativeOrganizationImportanceThreatManifestationCoachingInsecurityTerritoryInterfereArenaDistractedWrecksInsensitiveWorking With OthersGroup Effort Author:Bill Walsh
“Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.” FormSpiritCertainEgoIncludingManifestationEmptinessRadiantObstructionExuberance Book:The Essential Ken Wilber Source: The Essential Ken Wilber
“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” TryingTwoEndsUsePerfectEffortDivineEgoIncreaseManifestationSubtlePerfect Man Book:One Taste Source: One Taste
“Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers.” Has BeensAgeSpiritualCultureAbilityForgetAnimalEgoEnlightenmentUnderstoodGuidesManifestationPrimitiveDisguiseCelestialHealerBrainwashedAge Of Enlightenment Author:Zeena Schreck