“Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.” FeelsHeartSelfBodyJoyLove IsPersonalityEgoRootsSurrenderMatureHegemonyMature Love Book:Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life Source: Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life
“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
“The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.” ThinkingMorningTreeFineEgoRootsFlourishingSprouts Author:Ramakrishna
“Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.” KnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsBelievePersonsMadeImportantHelpingValuesRealizingDestinyOur LivesPrideEgoRootsHungerSignificantIntenseSignificanceOxygenOur DestinyGod ImageHelping Each Other Author:R. C. Sproul
“Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.” HelpingFeetEgoRootsCloudsFeet On The Ground Author:Faraaz Kazi
“The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!” IfsThinkingShouldMindReasonBodySourceEgoRootsBoundsReason WhyNo ReasonNervesShould IFoolishnessEgotismDegeneration Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination.” WayShouldTryingMindHeartLongSelfSpiritualEgoDevilShadowRootsSurrenderEgotismIllumination Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.” CausesEgoRootsMiseryAttachmentNourishmentRoot CausePossessiveness Author:Rajneesh