“Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.” PeopleWantGivingReligiousIdentityEgoGiving UpCompassionateEgotism Author:Karen Armstrong
“From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.” PersonsReligiousCompassionHellHumilityEgoSpringGateways Author:Dada Vaswani
“The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.” ImportantMovingFormLife IsPurposeSocialReligiousMoralDestinyEnvironmentEvolutionEgoUltimateFabricReligious Life Book:Stories and Biographies from Iqbal Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal
“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
“Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.” ReligiousEgoDiseaseLaughterEssenceSeriousnessCelebration Of Life Author:Rajneesh
“You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.” MenDoneReligiousViolenceBrokenRevolutionEgoMechanismExploitationUnconsciousnessEgo TripBroken Man Book:From R to Z Source: From R to Z
“Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits and attitudes that are natural to the species. . . . I am still naturally self-interested, overconfident, full of pride, and eager to control a meeting as any CEO in America. Every day, I struggle with my ego.” MenStillsSelfAmericaNaturalReligiousAttitudeStruggleEnvironmentPrideHabitDisciplineEgoMeetingsSpeciesPassionateSelf DisciplineCeoBad HabitsConservingOverconfident Author:Tom Chappell
“That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious egoists they have been. They have made their ego even more decorated; it has taken the color of religion and holiness. Your ego is better than the ego of a saint; your ego is better, far better - because your ego is very gross, and the gross ego can be understood and dropped more easily than the subtle. The subtle ego goes on playing such games that it is very difficult. One will need absolute awareness to watch it.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensMadeStoriesAgeGamesDifficultReligiousLevelsWatchesTakenAwarenessColorGoes OnEgoUnderstoodAbsolutesSaintHolinessSubtleGrossPious Author:Rajneesh
“This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.” KindMeanStarsReligiousTreeBecomingMountainEgoBirdRiversGuiltCelebrationJust Being Author:Rajneesh
“If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayBelieveHumansStatesHandsLeftInterestCommunityReligiousHuman BeingsSinActingEgoTraditionOriginalsConservativeDrivenContraryDevicesFlawedAbsentIf You BelieveOriginal SinRestrainingDisharmony Author:Rod Dreher