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Ego Quotes
"The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world."
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"I know', is a big ghost. 'This is mine', is a huge demonic possession!"
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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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?"
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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."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion."
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"My ego drives me nuts. It asks me to be competitive, creative, and smart."
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"Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance."
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"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."
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"Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"The more you try to be special, the more ordinary you become."
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"Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail."
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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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