Ego Quotes - Page 35

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

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

If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.

Joy is all there is. The rest is a preoccupation of the ego, unworthy of your holy mind.

Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.

Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.

Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

When we place our discontented egos on the altar of gratitude, we develop contented altar egos filled with thanksgiving.

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Get your egos off the battlefield.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.