It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth,...

We all need to humble ourselves from time to time and expose ourselves to new perspectives and ideas, even those of the non-experts, or else our growth potential gets weighed down with the ignorance of...

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you set aside your ego.

I? This is the very root of all evil.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

I hid my wound under my clothes. Nobody could see it, including myself, and I completely forgot about it. Then I met someone who, filled with love, held me tight in that point. The pain...

In the cosmos of time, there’s not a cocksucker in this room who is more than a fart in the wind!

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one’s own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the “I”....

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Few approach Nick the rest of the night, I am the only one brave enough to take him his specially made tea. “Thank you”, he said barely glancing up at me.”You’re welcome”, I said waiting...

In prayer all are equal.

Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great? He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his...

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to...

I feel so trapped, by my ego.

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved...

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present...

Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

It’s natural to think of one’s own life as a novel (or a movie or a play), and within that narrative we are always the central character. Thoughtful people try to overcome this compulsion, but...

La lengua es el mejor masajista de cejas fruncidas.

[…] Essence simply enjoys and commits attention and love to whatever is. In fact, committing attention to anything that is present results in enjoyment. The ego enjoys so little because it commits attention to what...

The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other’s shoulders / through the mirage.

Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

If you’re working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That’s why I believe there should be a psychiatrist...

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it’s not working. It attaches to...

If you’re brighter than a lightning bug, don’t show your ass

Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the...

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

There are journalists who are drawn to the most extroverted, aggressive jobs because they get an ego high from it. It can be shocking to encounter them and even worse to work with them.

Don’t feed your ego with my soul.

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

I like the moment when I break a man’s ego

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually...

If we want to live perfectly happy lives…we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing...

He said he didn’t think he is good, but you can tell that secretly he thinks he’s good. And he’s right—he’s not good.

Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé.

After you first tell someone you love them, the weight of the wait for them to tell you they love you too feels like an elephant doing jumping jacks on the back of your mouse-like...

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there