Ego Quotes - Page 11

• Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Trying, Bones

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• The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.

  Dharma Mittra

  Self, Talking, Meditation

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• I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

  Walter Cronkite

  Ambition, Becoming

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• I would live in a communist country providing I was the Queen.

  Stella Adler

  Country, Queens, Communist

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• There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, People

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• For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Knowing, Enlightenment

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• For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Believe, Balance

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• The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mistake, Humility

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you individualize the spirit within you through the process of observation. If you work on yourself, the progress you make radiates invisibly to others, helping them and giving them courage, which also improves the global picture. After all-your ego is a part of the world ego, and as you control it, you lessen the overall influence of the world ego while expanding the presence of truth on our planet.

  Stuart Wilde

  Inspirational, Giving, Progress

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.

  Pim van Lommel

  Inspirational, Memories, Dysfunction

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• Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Self, Voice

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

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• The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Identity, Illusion

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• The ego holds us to this world. The ego is the feeling that you are. But you are not, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Feelings, World

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• In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Matter, Spirit

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• The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Ideas

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• The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Yoga, Fire

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• What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Gone, Eternity

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• Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right and what's wrong. I can't tell anymore. I could be doing what I feel is right and perhaps I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps it's all my ego and my vanity. Please show me what's right or don't even show me. Please just do it, whether it brings me happiness or unhappiness, riches or poverty, sorrow or joy. Please act in and through me. I love only you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Vanity, Joy

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• Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Thinking

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• "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Humility, Buddhism

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• Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Humility, Buddhism

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• Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Humility, Buddhism

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• When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Humility, Buddhism

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• You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Crowds

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• Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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