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Ego Quotes
"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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"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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"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."
3
"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."
3
"Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority."
3
"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."
3
"The more you try to be special, the more ordinary you become."
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"If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!"
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"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?"
3
"As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self."
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"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."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion."
3
"Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance."
2
"Your Ego tells you that you were wronged and it validates your separation. Your Higher Self tells you that you were blessed and it validates your expansion."
2
"Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance."
2
"What is the greatest weakness? 'Egoism'. No matter how virtuous one may be, as long as the egoism is present; it is all useless. A virtuous person is only of use if he is humble."
2
"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
2
"It is quite awful how some people are constantly saying that they are superior to others, but deep down they know that they are suffering from a lot of insecurities."
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"The slightest awareness of 'my-ness' is indeed egoism."
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"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."
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"The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change."
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"Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people."
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"Worrying is the greatest egoism!"
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"When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval."
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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
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"My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart."
1
"The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that 'I died'. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle."
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"What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other 'flaws'."
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"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it."
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