1,899 Quotes About Ego

Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism--that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.

A problem is a shadow of the illusion of a self.

I looked into the mirror; I could see all the body parts that belong to me, but I couldn't see myself.

Mental pain is usually caused, not by our being pushed by life to where we do not want—or away from where we want—to be, but by the friction caused by our resistance to the push.

The greatest mistake the self-indulgent-ego-mind forgets, that there is no permanence throughout the expanse of the universe. Only experiences and everything is just memory like a wake in the water, dissolving away as the boat acts forward