1,899 Quotes About Ego

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Wherever there is ego, meditation (dhyan) does not exist. The inherent nature of the ego is such that dhyan does not exist when the ego is present. Therefore, when dhyan arises it is a resultant state, it is not an activity. Dhyan is the effect that arises from whatever activity the ego does.

Imagine for a second what it would be like if you were free from constraints of the small self, identity, just for a few seconds. What would you do? What would you say? Who would you be?

...suggest that people's selective attention, encoding, retrieval and interpretation processes may work to ensure that their self-concepts will survive even in the face of a mountain of discrepant evidence.

I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.

Time spent in anger is a double edged sword. Not only is it a phenomenal waste of time, it also damages your health and thus shortens the time you have left.

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Think what it would be like to have a work conceived from outside the self, a work that would let us escape the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language, to the bird perching on the edge of the gutter, to the tree in spring and the tree in fall, to cement, to plastic.

We find it very difficult to assimilate and accept the idea that those close to us can advice us correctly; so we see it as humiliating and demeaning that we are better not listening to them. We must grow out of this ego in other to enact change that the world will reckon with