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Ego Quotes
"I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting."
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"It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point."
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"What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher."
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"It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind."
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"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."
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"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
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"Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness."
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"How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding."
5
"If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!"
5
"In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of 'I am Chandubhai'), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one's self. Everything in the worldly life is nothing but intoxication. The food is intoxicating, the senses are intoxicating. [Therefore] Go to the one, who is without mada (pride), the one who has destroyed all intoxication. There in his proximity, you will realize that, 'wow! The intoxication of the ego is something that can go down!' Then 'our' awareness will manifest. You, the Self are indeed the absolute supreme soul (Parmatma)!"
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"As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms."
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"All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!"
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"What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation."
3
"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
3
"The ego survives only in conflict. Peace is the death of the ego."
3
"The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries."
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"In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance."
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"What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one's own weight. It is to believe that 'I am Great'."
3
"Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'."
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"Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Venerable One, I'm afraid it might befall me that my ego would be pacified and liberated only seemingly, only illusorily, that in reality it would survive and grow great, for then I would make the teaching, my discipleship, my love for you, and the community of the monks into my ego!"
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"He had the vanity to believe men did not like him " while men simply did not know him."
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"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."
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"No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."
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"Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren't.What a relief, right?"
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"Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?"
2
"Ruthless destruction of an ego is a rather simple matter. Preserving the host deprived of an ego is a more delicate affair. How does a person engage in momentous battle with the self while simultaneously struggling to maintain their cerebral, emotive, and spiritual equilibrium in the thin air of consciousness? How assiduously does an agitated mind need to work in order to achieve the elusive degree of emotional and mental quietness that I seek?"
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"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong."
2
"That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole."
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"Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism."
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"Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief."
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"To say that, "I will not agree (will not accept) is great egoism!"
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"If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you."
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"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
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"There was only one thing about his own appearance which really pleased Hercule Poirot, and that was the profusion of his moustaches, and the way they responded to grooming and treatment and trimming. They were magnificent. He knew of nobody else who had any moustache half as good."
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