1,899 Quotes About Ego

How you handle success says a lot about you.

To an ego, being ignored is equivalent to annihilation. To not exist is any ego’s greatest fear. It is a warranted fear because the ego does, in fact, get annihilated in proportion to the growth of one’s spiritual realisation. However, the rewards of spiritual development so outshine the feeble offerings of the ego that it is an insignificant price to pay. Does one begrudge paying a small price for something invaluable?

Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral.

Forgiveness is…an archaic perception of personal debt and guilt designed by the ego to trap us unendingly within itself.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

You lose respect when you demand respect.

If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.

Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

While the number of friends may feed your ego, it will never satisfy your heart.