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Ego Quotes
"The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world."
"I know', is a big ghost. 'This is mine', is a huge demonic possession!"
"He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him-everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it. Having a conceited ego is one thing. Actually being told by a machine is another."
"The slightest awareness of 'my-ness' is indeed egoism."
"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!"
"He had the vanity to believe men did not like him " while men simply did not know him."
"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."
"The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change."
"Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people."
"Worrying is the greatest egoism!"
"Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer from life only when we fail to examine the cause of our sorrow. Letting go of destructive illusions and freeing oneself from egotism of self-pity enables a person to sense the rich intertexture of their inner world, which is the only facet of reality that we exercise exclusive dominion and control."
"The more you try to be special, the more ordinary you become."
"If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!"
"As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms."
"Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail."
"A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, 'Someone is going to insult me someone is going to insult me' or 'From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect?"
"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."
"To change from inauspicious [bad] to auspicious [good] can be done, through egoism. But egoism is not required to come to pure-state from auspicious-state. From there, one will not be able to know where to find the staircase to climb up the steps! That's why, all this has stopped from going further."
"Why should one ever get pain? One is the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), how can one have any pain? It is the egoism that causes pain and it is also the egoism that suffers the pain! The absolute Supreme Self doesn't have any suffering!"
"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."
"Tremendous my-ness' [mamta] is bound in the presence of Soul [Atma], and it is also in the presence of Soul that this my-ness is tremendously dissipated."
"The body is doing the action, body's spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, 'I did'! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; 'I did', 'I suffered this pain', 'I enjoyed that happiness'. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul."
"When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion."
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