Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it. '
Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Ego can’t sleep. It micro-manages. It disempowers. It reduces our capability. It excels in control.
Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.
I am what I photograph.
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.
one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!
When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.
Every need got an ego to feed.
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset.
Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.
Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.