The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires. . . Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.
The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.
The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep ecstasy will happen between you and your master. Wherever there is a `let-go', ecstasy happens - that is the law.
Ego is vital but not noble.
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.
The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?
Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.
This rascal ego must be obliterated.
Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.
The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.
You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.
The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.