1,899 Quotes About Ego

At first, meditation reveals to you, and then reminds you … every second, that among the body, the mind, and the awareness you are the third.

You do not think. You are thought … and therefore a thought.

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.

Silence went to see the ego, but there were nobody home.

The human body is a miraculous instrument that instinctively knows what it needs. Unfortunately, the human ego often drives us not to listen.

The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can find. The idea of karma is a clear marker of self-obsession. People actually believe that the vast cosmos is infatuated about what they do - as opposed to completely indifferent - and goes to all the trouble of rearranging itself to teach them personal karmic "lessons.