Ego Quotes - Page 7

After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride.

Joy is a choice, not an outcome.

Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.

For the "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within a man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and an unspeakable lie.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

Mind makes a man of God.

The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially conditioned mind.

Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.

What more does one need than what is offered by the present moment? Once you have learnt how to dissolve in the present moment, and you are able to enjoy it, you will have no problem in disregarding the empty chit-chat of the Ego, the mind!