1,899 Quotes About Ego

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.