Ego Quotes - Page 9

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.

Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

Every need got an ego to feed.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.

Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

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.

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.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

The biggest nuts and guess what? He is I and I am him.

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.