Home / Topics / Ego Quotes

Ego Quotes

Browse 3429 quotes about Ego.

Ego Quotes

“Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.”

Self Seems Faith Spirituality Differences Doubt Ego Approach Enlightened Exposed Patches Concealed Readiness Confirmation

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“... the more the mind dominates, the more the ego comes into play, and the further people depart from their true inner self. So all the technological advances in the world mean nothing if people feel a spiritual void inside of them.”

People Ifs World Feels Mind Mean Self Play Spiritual Spirituality Ego Void Technological Inner Self

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.”

Success Spirituality Understanding Compassion Ego Surrender Evolve Realms Materialism

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.”

Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Goal Practice Failing Evolution Succeed Ego Concerned Endeavor Spiritual Life Success Or Failure

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”

People Doe Soul Helping Age Spiritual Moving Spirituality Practice Ego Old Age Identifying Spiritual Practice Ego And Soul

Author:Ram Dass

“Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.”

Kind Art Form Spirituality Games Moral Ego Perfection Strive Depth Height Mastery Contrast Attainment Lofty

Author:Alan Watts

“Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.”

Soul God Spirit Spirituality Individual Higher Ego Individuality Dawn

Author:Rama Swami

“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.”

Knows Feels Mind Heart Moments Feelings Beautiful Spirituality Belief Speak Forget Mystery Ego Manifestation Sunset Entity Forget You Separateness Beautiful 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.”

World Firsts Whole Facts Able Life Is Spirituality Belief Steps Knowing Ego Capable First Time Whole World Agents Manifestation First Steps Facility Facts Of Life Knowing 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.”

Knows Way Doe Happens Spirituality Belief Ego Perception Mirrors Absence Mediums Manifestation Subtle Interpretation Abyss Interpreting Falsification

Author:Rajneesh

“The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.”

Spirit Spirituality Space Ego

Author:Alan Cohen

“Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism”

Thinking May Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Process Path Walking Ego Fundamentals Technique Versions Developing Subtle Materialism Deceiving Distortion Spiritual Path Strengthening

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.”

Wisdom Spiritual Spirituality Tree Greatness Humility Flower Ego Lows Fruit Petals

Author:Ramakrishna

“If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved.”

Ifs Feels Looks Spirit Spirituality Knowing Safe Ego Crowds Secure Ads Isolated Lenses Look At Yourself Yourself And Life

Book:The Answer Is Simple...: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit!: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: The Answer Is Simple...: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit!: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.”

Humans Spirituality Three Existence Compassion Path Conditions Letting Go Ego Unconditional Human Existence Intersections

Author:David Richo

“The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.”

Use Problem Spirituality Ego

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.”

Spirituality Teaching Ego Benefits Acquire Attempting

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings