Quotes about Ego

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death.

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 also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications.

None of these is you.

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions, achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire evidence of your importance... On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within you. ...with imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be.

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

All emanates from Source! ...You're not this body and its accomplishments. You are the observer. Notice it all; and be grateful for the abilities you've been given, the motivation to achieve, and the stuff you've accumulated. But give all the credit to the power of intention, which brought you into existence...

When the mind is attached to the senses, it cannot see beyond the limitations of the body of which it occupies; be it physical, astral or causal. Only when attached to the supreme Self, does that being become absolute in its limitlessness.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Eventually I was disgusted of how fake most people live their lives. How sturdily set they are on concepts and Idea's, not even their own. And live their lives by them, without regarding their validity upon their own lives.
Not a self made image, of how you should be. (the Ego) But worse, an image of how you should be.

If you ever want to drop a self image, which is never who you really are. You will need to know how it has gotten there. It will take time and effort to self explore.

Souls do not need to be saved. Egos need clarification.

We truly become special only when we believe, and act as if, we aren't!

Reality is wrapped within a fantasy when your life is interpreted by your ego.

. . . even the enlightened person . . . is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky.

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.

Truth is perspective; absolute truth is ego.

Love is a brand of egoism that ignores the feelings of it's mark, whiling insisting on it's own selfish demands.

Let all desires, thoughts and actions die gracefully.

What you dwell upon the most, know that that is your God.

One must be very diligent in watching the ego's use of the mask of spirituality to manoeuvre its self-serving intentions-narcissism, financial, emotional, and psychological fulfillment.

The activating power of the mantra is such that it enlightens by transforming the inner darkness at the sub-atomic level. As such, the inhibiting, negative samskaras, masked by ignorance and held within as limiting characteristics, are released to the light of the individual one atom at a time.

What is there to know of the mind? The mind is not to be learned about. It is to be forgotten about.

When you give up your identification with the things in the outside realm, you identify ever so increasingly with the supreme Self.