Quotes about Ego
Pain is the doorway into deep. Know what I mean? And tragedy is nature's great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear and arrogance that is of the ego. Returns us to our brilliance and genius, if you have the courage to go into that which wounds you. Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, relatability and authenticity.
— Robin Sharma
Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,' says C. S. Lewis.
— Lee Strobel
He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet.
— Lewis Carroll
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
— Thomas Merton
The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
— Albert Einstein
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
— Marianne Williamson
Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.
— Marianne Williamson
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
— Albert Einstein
Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God.
— Aldous Huxley
When the phenomenal ego transcends itself, the essential Self is free to realize, in terms of a finite consciousness, the fact of its own eternity, together with the correlative fact that every particular in the world of experience partakes of the timeless and the infinite. This is liberation, this is enlightenment, this is the beatific vision, in which all things are perceived as they are "in themselves" and not in relation to a craving and abhorring ego.
— Aldous Huxley
He was wondering how anyone could talk so loud, could boast so extravagantly. It was as though the man had to shout in order to convince himself of his own existence.
— Aldous Huxley
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
— John Lennon