“We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.” ThinkingMeanPersonsImportantEndsLightChristianEvilVirtueClearEventsEgoNegativeIdealsHatredPlantCharitySeedsOpeningChristian LifeGod LoveWeedIntensityHis LoveArrivalsAsceticismPenanceMortificationPull UpsFerocityImportant Events Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.” SelfHateEmotionConsciousnessDoubtBuddhismLimitsEgoAnxietyMindfulnessNegativeSense Of SelfMeditatingNegative ThoughtsThoughts And Emotions Author:Frederick Lenz
“Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.” LoveGivingMindIdeasSelfFeelingsLove IsPureEgoGiving UpJudgmentNegativePrejudiceConstantSelfishnessFlamesMaskRemoveDestroyingStemPure LoveExpect NothingNegative FeelingsPreconceived Ideas Book:Awaken Children Vol. 4 Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4
“The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.” GivingMindBodyLightEnergyProcessRoomsKnowingReadyExpressionEgoNegativeBasesAbsolutesFoundationGenuineBreathingConcentrationAllowingFloodDroppingPositive Energy Author:Marion Woodman
“Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.” ThinkingHas BeensWarFactsSpiritualPayAttentionEnemyEgoConceptsNegativeWho You AreDisasterBoundariesAriseConclusionDestroyedSeekersWar With Yourself Author:Adyashanti
“Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.” WantMayLittlesFeelingsBitsHurtCareersHugeEgoLittle BitNegativeTrackDisasterRuinsFeedbackHurt FeelingsBruisedNegative Feedback Author:Charles Koch
“The question is: Will Trump's ego allow him to reconsider any negative moves that he now might have in mind? Such reconsideration is really out of character for him.” MindCharacterMightMovingTrumpEgoNegativeReconsideration Author:Lawrence Davidson
“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
“Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.” BeautifulFireAwarenessDivineEgoNegativeGreedJealousyPossessivenessI Am JealousYour Jealous Author:Rajneesh
“Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous.” TryingMindCertainNamesLove YouPossibilityTypeEgoElementsNegativeEnvyJealousyJealousy EnvyJealousy And Envy Author:Rajneesh
“Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.” MindStatesProductsEgoNegativeEnvyJealousState Of MindResentmentJealousy EnvyJealousy And EnvyAnger Resentment Author:Eckhart Tolle
“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
“So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all thats imagined and all conceivable. Just let the light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason ... before we pine away.” MindReasonLightBehindsEgoLateCapableNegativeBlindToo LateCynicalSpills Author:Maynard James Keenan