Ego Quotes - Page 13

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

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.'

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

There is no such thing as a typical season, not for the Cardinals, not for San Diego, not for Minnesota.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.

It is not difficult to destroy Islam. Islam is the pumped up ego of a megalomaniac psychopath. Muhammad was a narcissist madman. Just as a huge balloon can be deflated by a small needle, all it takes to make Islam explode is to ridicule its loony inventor and its brainless followers.

I think everyone is a little egocentric, but when I help someone I lose 0.01% of my ego.

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

What about Beck?" "Backwoods Boy? Are you crazy? It'd be a threesome - me, him and his overbearing ego. Definitely doomed to failure.

The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why when the soul leaves the body, the body becomes a corpse. The soul is immaterial and distinct from the body.

When ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful.

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.