Quotes on Ego

Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.

True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will