I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

I would prefer not to.

Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping...

Food for the ego is poison for the soul.

Let your work show off for you and not your ego.

Spacebar,” trying to translate the synth chords into a piano bit on the fly. It had been a million years since I’d played it.But it was still catchy.Whoever had written this song had known what...

Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not...

Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point ofegoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-oriented. You are not...

Because it’s indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite trifling cause, offending him. The truth seems to be the nobody...

To achieve release, man kneels before a million Gods, in frantic pain. If he but blasts the ego within the Goal is reached, he is freed indeed!

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration of consciousness by the use of plants or substances is somehow wrong, onanistic,...

Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to...

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

Blessed are those who do not feel stressed with jealousy seeing the growth of a truly and richly deserving person, and not necessarily ones who remain always nattily and richly dressed.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone’s behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it’s not personal,...

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

La persona que tú mismo sientes ser, de acuerdo con los Sufis, es una falsa persona que no tiene una realidad verdadera.

memang harus menurunkan ego untuk bisa berkolaborasi dengan baik

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just...

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Unbelievable,” I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone’s breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want...

It won’t matter if nobody ever thinks I’m pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

Choose to collaborate (abundance perspective) and watch your competitors (scarcity perspective) become your allies.

Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are...

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem.

If you’re a boss, and not a leader, your time is limited.

The fact that both ego and self say “I” is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, “I am what I know myself to be.” The self says merely, “I am.

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down...

I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.

So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea…

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his...

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Show me a person who really knows what ‘good’ is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who discovered that she always had the...

Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.

Mind makes a man of God.

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego’s...

a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.

She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can always transcend the pain of the ego.

Don’t plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you’ll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing.