Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things--led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.
Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.
me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.
If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.
I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.
For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.
At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.
That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.
Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw from your own ideas? Loving yourself is not a matter of building your ego. Egotism is proving you are worthwhile after you have sunk into hating yourself. Loving yourself will dissolve your ego: you will feel no need to prove you are superior.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.