“In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.” IfsKnowsMenWorldTwoHandsAsksEmotionOur LivesThis WorldEgoIntelligentPossessionSignificantDay To DayCompelledDay LifeDay To Day LifeUpper Hand Author:Sri Chinmoy
“A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.” WayHeartHas BeensStatesSpiritualPathOur LivesJourneyChildhoodEmotionalMaterialsDevelopmentBirthLessonsEgoAnd LoveForgottenSeekingPossessionGuidesBitterFrustrationDestinationInwardToilFacilitateHappiness And LoveTrue PowerMemento Author:R. Carlos Nakai
“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.” MindProcessMemoriesEgoAchievementPossessionHabitualThought ProcessPersonal History Author:Eckhart Tolle
“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
“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.” ShouldAgeMiddleMaterialsPeriodsEgoAmbitionAgingPossessionBirthdayShellsMiddle AgesAccumulation Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea
“The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.” TwoDreamConsciousnessVisionStepsDarknessDoorsFiguresPersonalityEgoShadowPossessionInvisibleUnconsciousTwilightGateways Book:The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“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
“Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.” MenHumansSelfStatesDiesIndividualGoalAbilityConsciousnessTeachStageDevelopmentPureEgoHappeningsIllusionUniversalStrivePossessionKarmaSeparationPreservesHinduismDharmaHuman DevelopmentMultiplicityVedantaMokshaCarrier Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it is possession, and many things - but not relationship. How can you relate with two egos there? When there are two egos, then there are four persons.” BelievePersonsTwoFourRelationshipConflictEgoPossessionRelateAggressionDominationEnmity Author:Rajneesh
“Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.” SourceEgoPossessionAttachmentDetached Author:Rajneesh