if due to ego you think:i shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you.

Do someone a favour, you make a friend; favour ’em too much, you make an enemy.

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over...

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: ‘What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Doffing the ego’ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.

Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead...

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the...

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually...

Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.

Forgiveness is…an archaic perception of personal debt and guilt designed by the ego to trap us unendingly within itself.

Both the mind and “presence” can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

I know what Twitter is; I don’t use it. I don’t use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Being aware is being aware of one’s own mind and the games it plays on itself.

It’s so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else’s reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person,...

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you’re done for.

One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it’s 5 a.m., I figured you’d be less cranky...

I have worn my heart on my sleeve because it is too painful to carry it inside my chest.When I carry it on my sleeve, it has the freedom to exist, to beat in rhythm...

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one’s ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

To base your self worth relative to others is to play a losing game. If you are at the bottom, you will be filled with self-loathing. If you are at the top, you will be...

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.

Quien vaya a ser sabio se menosprecia a sí mismo. Sólo los ignorantes confían en su propio juicio.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

What more does one need than what is offered by the present moment? Once you have learnt how to dissolve in the present moment, and you are able to enjoy it, you will have no...

We all have this restful mind, but sometimes our fears and our ego mind get the better of us and we can’t see it.

Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and...

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need...

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others....

It is an economic analysis, but the problem is that there’s also an ego factor at many airlines. That’s when a CEO says something like we need to have a presence in the Denver-to-London market...

I had a dream about you trying to parallel park your ego between two modest cars. The ego wouldn’t fit, and those guys weren’t putting up a fight, so let’s just say you made it...

Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.

Ego doesn’t want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.

The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...

I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts or drives are actually primary instincts! Because in that case the emotional plague...

He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. And...

If there was one overriding element to Faraday’s character, it was humility. His ‘conviction of deficiency,’ as he called it, stemmed in part from his deep religiosity and affected practically every facet of his life....

I’m pretty much a goddess around here.

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the...

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to...

Aprender a aprender: Decir “sí” a la vía sufi es decir “no” a las fugas imaginadas.

My ego is crying out to be heard. Like a kidnap victim.

The Lord has put more hardships atop the shoulders of my neighbors — more than I can even fathom coping with. I will strive to find a way to turn pity into admiration, for what...

Ego, Identity and Self – the 3 concepts of one’s creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing...

You are not who you think.You’re not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought.