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Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Ego

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Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Ego, Complaining, Strategy

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Religious, Knowledge, Ego

"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

Past, Ego, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

Ego, Suffering, Purpose

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

Wisdom, Ego, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.72, Penguin

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Spiritual, Ego, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.51, Penguin

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

Crazy, Ego, Labels

"A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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

Ego, Looks, Next

Source: rayhemachandra.com

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

Order, Perspective, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.53, Penguin

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

Spiritual, People, Ego

There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

Heart, Mean, Ego

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

Ego, Way, Reactions

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

Spiritual, Self, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.62, Penguin

The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Spiritual, Ego, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.73, Penguin

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Jealous, Envy, Ego

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

Ego, Needs, Feels

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.65, Penguin

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.

Heal Itself, Anchors, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.44, Penguin

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.

Ego, Suffering, Cracks

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

Ego, Desire, Partners

"Morning share: Kim Eng and Eckhart Tolle: Relationships – True Love and the Transcendence of Duality". Interview with David Matthew Brown, www.patheos.com. January 25, 2013.

Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

Reflection, People, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.121, Penguin

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Past, Ego, Important

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

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

Ego

Twitter post from Feb 12, 2017

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

Ego, Humanity, Reaching

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Ego, Substitutes, Feels

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

Ego, Fragments, Perceive

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.117, Penguin

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