Ego Quotes

Ego Quotes will help you know your false self. There is you, and there is your ego, or false self. The ego is the mind-made persona, the story of your life that comes to believe it is the totality of who you are. It is the one that becomes identified with things, money, ideas, personal history, and believes that when these things are threatened, its very existence is threatened. Take away all these THINGS the ego has convinced you that you are, and what is left? The real you. You don't disappear if all these THINGS are taken away.

EGO QUOTES

You are the occupant of your body. You are conciousness or awareness or spirit or soul that just happens to be borrowing the trillions of atoms that comprise your body, until you decide to move on. Keep coming back to ego quotes. Ego quotes: "Don't tell me what to do"!

To consider yourself superior to others because of what you have and do is to be owned by things that one day will find you no longer worthy of them. An ego quotes original! Wait, is that my ego saying that?

All things and situations are temporary, whether labeled by the ego as good or bad. For this reason, "bad" things should not seem so permanent and serious and "good" things should be all the more appreciated because they are impermanent too. Ego quotes agrees--temporarily.

Labeling anything as "bad" is automatic negativity. You can't possibly know all the reasons and results of an event to be able to accurately judge it as "bad", it is your ego that thinks it knows. Ego quotes says: "Everything that happens is an integral part of the whole, pizza bones too"!

Caution: When labeling anything as good, keep in mind that eventually it will pass. Enjoy good things only in the present moment, knowing that to fear their passing or to mourn their passing is the eventual negative result of labeling things as "good". Ego quotes want more puff of peace pipe.

Still the mind by thinking these words. After a while, be the intention of the words because a still mind contains no words.

1. No past. 2. No future. 3. No words. 4. No thoughts. 5. No self. 6. No mind.

In this state you have dropped the mind-made persona or ego. What is left is the true essence of who you are beyond and prior to form. You will automatically take a deep breath because your autopilot for breathing will be turned off. Normally you don't notice your breath because you are immersed in thought, in the world. The breath is the one function that the body can control or you can. When the mind is still you will notice your breath and breathe deeper. When you notice that first breath, in that instant you will be free of the ego, there will be peace, no matter what is happening around you. Rinse, Repeat often.

The ego is the false self, the one who thinks that events, circumstances, other people's opinions, things that happen in "your life", even your body, are actually you, when you are really the awareness or spirit who observes your body as it experiences these things. Ego quotes quote: "Be the observer of your thoughts, not the thoughts themselves."

The ego believes itself and what it wants and doesn't want to be of utmost importance, and believes anything else is not important. Ego quotes quips: "Ego quotes are important."

The egoic entity tries to convince you that you ARE everything that happens to you. It wants you to internalize events and circumstances, to become these things so that it may bask in the self-importance of denial, of being victimized, of being against, and of always being right. Ego quotes: "Ego quotes knows best. Wait, what"?

When a person achieves a previously desired goal, rather than basking in the happiness and fulfillment of the moment, the ego makes them second guess themselves, wondering if they just got lucky, or if the accomplishment was too easy. Rather than enjoy the moment, the person continues searching for that magical situation that will finally give them fulfillment or happiness, not knowing that the ego will continue to rob them of those feelings every time by not letting it be good enough or big enough and always promising it will be better next time. This search for fulfillment becomes never ending and never results in fulfillment or happiness as long as the ego is in control. Ego quotes says; "Could you use that in a sentence?"

Through acting as an interested observer who is watching you navigate through life, you can in a spiritual sense, detach from the things that happen in the physical world, and not internalize, or become them, while at the same time responding to the world around you as it is, without allowing negativity or drama to enter in. Who is ego quotes? "I Am."

Without the freak-show that egoic thinking perpetuates, you will experience peace of mind that most people don't know exists. Ego quotes says: "You humans crack me up! You think everything matters but in the end, nothing does. Don't be so friggin serious!" Ego quotes: "Note to self; don't be so friggin serious about telling them not to be so friggin serious."

To drop the ego is to end your mental suffering while on this planet, and for most people is beyond the realm of comprehension, because their ego has convinced them that it IS them. Ego quotes: "Ego? What ego? I am my past, my accomplishments, my money, my looks, my car, my hobbies, my clothes and more. Without them who would I be?"

When you attach yourself, your very identity to "things" and "wants", you have allowed egoic thinking to make you believe you are these things and wants. When the things and wants go bad, or don't go as desired, your ego-self will be diminished, and you will suffer mental negativity--fear, disappointment, loss, all things that are only ego-made ideas. Ego quotes: "Hey ego quotes writer, I have an idea, how about you go take a hike!"

By practicing profound humility, you will reinforce the knowledge that your self-esteem is intact, that you know you are good no matter what happens, and that the bad and even the good opinions of other people cannot diminish or inflate you. Ego quotes says: "Hey writer--you suck!" Writer: "You suck if you say I suck."

Through ego quotes, you'll begin to recognize when your ego has surfaced. How will you know? You will be afraid of what might happen; you will be easily offended; you will be disappointed by hopes that don't materialize; you will be outraged or insensed; you will deny things that are true; you will become too attached to everything. When you realize that it's your ego coming through, that will be the beginning of its end. Ego quotes says: "Here, here!"

Thought is a tool. Use it only to drive toward a desired outcome or event, or to find a creative solution for you or someone else. If your thoughts are on anything else, thought has become the thinker and ego has taken over. Ego quotes says: "Methinks thou thinketh too much."

Unsupervised thought is like a boat without a driver--it goes left and right and in circles and eventually crashes. Unsupervised thought will eventually cause you mental pain-guaranteed. Ego quotes: "Oh no, my thoughts just ran over a duck!"

How will you know when thought itself has become your master? you will feel uneasy or worse. Stop the chaotic stream of thought by imagining--No past, no future, no words, no thoughts, no mind. This will stop the willy nilly thinking for a second and give you peace. When unsupervised thought starts up again, repeat the quiet mind method. Ego quotes says: "Does this mean I'm most sane when I'm out of my mind?"

When you find that your ego has taken over your existence, no matter what situation or disappointment or negativity is in control, stop the cycle by saying mentally "It ain't me". "It" is the situation or lack of, or the want or the resistence to what is. "Me" is you the soul, the conciousness, the awareness.

When you say this, you recognize that the ego is attempting to make the situation or negative so important, that you feel you are the situation, and will be diminished if it does not go your way. By reaffirming that no matter what happens you will still be you, you take away stress and negativity and diminish the ego, which is what you want. Ego quotes: "Lighten up dude, I just wanted some pizza!"

More than anything I have ever read, the following book has shown me how to recognize my own ego and through denying it the self-importance that it craves, enjoy more peace of mind and happiness than I knew possible. Ego quotes: "Yes, I'll have some fries with that.'

The book is not a quick read, and may take several read-throughs before you understand it...but when you start to catch glimpses of your non-egoic self, you will not want to put it down.

Come back to ego quotes often, and you will slowly get rid of that false self that wants you to be in a state of turmoil. If you have friends or loved ones possessed by ego, copy and send them the url: http://www.happiness-quotes.com/egoquotes.html. Ego quotes might help them realize the difference between their ego and who they really are.

When you are feeling any negativity at all, it is most likely your ego coming through. Recently I allowed a comment from a colleague to shape a three day period into an egoic festival of self-doubt, low self esteem, and all the associated baggage that goes with them. I came to the ego quotes page and realized I was a victim of my own ego. I had allowed the opinion of someone I don't even like to diminish me. I had become, via my ego, the negative opinion this person held of me. Rather than affirm to myself my virtues and qualities and the fact that this person could not have the slightest inkling of who I am, my ego told me to agree with his shallow, ego-driven opinion. I have much to learn. Ego quotes says: "Get over it dude. Proceed directly to DQ and have a dip cone--or not, hahahahaha, you humans so funny, hahahahaha!"

I will from now on return to this ego quotes page when I am feeling negative. I feel better already. Ego quotes says: Me too, say--does this pillow in my shirt make me look fat?"

4-10-11 Update! Kids, I think I may have figured out how not to suffer any more negativity. This is new stuff, so be patient and open your mind. Ego quotes says: Read at own risk. Writer smoke too much peace pipe one day, get too serious. He think he have answers. Answers only work on day he carve them into wall.

Conflicting thoughts and emotions are the result of judgments. Eliminate judgment, and you will eliminate conflict. All stories require conflict, or there would be no interest. Humans like stories, hence, they are addicted to conflict but are unaware of this addiction..

Since humans are not aware of their addiction, and that addiction is fueled and kept alive through the media, it is an automatic subconscious response to judge events, thus ensuring ever-continuing conflict. There is no story in peace of mind, hence no interest or desire for its attainment, though unaware humans will claim it is what they want.

Conflict is mesmerizing. It is also suffering. Without knowing it, humans are addicted to suffering and if given this knowledge and the choice to stop, would probably choose suffering.

In this never-ending stream of suffering, humans complain about the things that make them suffer as though they would eliminate them if they could. Complaining is suffering about the things they suffer from, which multiplies their vexation, or feelings of negativity.

As soon as one source of suffering fades, the never-idle judger kicks in, unknowingly looking for conflict from which it can find momentary satiation for the subconscious and never ending craving of suffering.

And so here is why humanity maintains itself in a never-ending loop of suffering, and what can be done to break it.

1. Humans are subconsciously addicted to suffering. This is played out by the conscious mind through judgment, opposition and conflict. Peace is not interesting. Conflict is interesting. It is also suffering, because something is not resolved.

2. In order to have conflict there must be judgment.

3. In order to keep judgment in play, humans seek events to judge.

4. If there is a lack of events to judge, this is judged as boredom, and so conflict is attained without even an event to spark it.

5. The non-stop seeking of things to judge, of conflict itself, is an addiction because it adversely affects every aspect of human existence.

6. The human addiction to judgment, which begets conflict, which begets suffering, which begets complaining, or suffering about suffering, is the greatest disease to ever strike humanity.

7. The greatest irony of all is that humanity does not know it is addicted to suffering, and so it is subconsciously craved and consciously wished away simultaneously.

8. Human existence is a constant tug of war between the unaware craving for conflict and the conscious craving for resolution. Throughout history the craving for suffering has remained victorious.

9. One way to end human suffering is to eliminate the conscious desire for resolution--stay with me, you'll see the payoff soon. The subconscious craving for suffering is much more powerful and wields far more inertia than the desire for peace. The desire for peace is conscious, and therefore easier to drop than the subconscious desire for suffering.

10. When humanity becomes aware of its craving for suffering and accepts it as the norm, and drops the desire for peace, the conflict between craving of suffering and the desire for peace will end.

11. With human awareness and acceptance of its subconscious craving of suffering, and the dropping of all conscious desire for conflict resolution, the subconscious craving of suffering will no longer have an opposing, conflict-creating force.

12. Without an opposing force to the subconscious craving for suffering, and the awareness of the existence of this craving, and the conscious dropping of all desire for peace and resolution to conflict, suffering will begin to subside.

13. All things may be labeled as bad, but with no attempt or desire for resolution, peace, reversal, empathy, sympathy, regret, or any opposition whatsoever, even though they are "bad", there will be no mental conflict, there will be no suffering.

14. You will satisfy your subconscious craving for suffering and your desire to label things as "bad", yet consciously you will not oppose it. By consciously withholding all opposition to a "bad" thing, by saying yes to it, by knowing it is what you subconsciously wanted, it is no longer bad. "Bad" has now become nothing more than a word, a sound.

15. We have now withheld judgment of the "bad" thing through knowing it is what our subconscious wanted and by consciously choosing to not oppose it! Without judgment and opposition, the bad thing is no longer bad, it just is.

16. Why use this method? Because the subconscious craving for suffering is so strong that the outright withholding of judgment is too difficult and not even desired by most humans. They want to judge, yet they want peace and resolution. You cannot have both.

17. The subconscious desire for suffering is just as engrained in the human psyche as the desire for sex and even the will to survive.

18. It is the conscious opposition to the subconscious desire for suffering that keeps humanity in a constant state of suffering.

19. The nonstop suffering of humanity can be ended by becoming aware of the subconscious desire for suffering, identifying the things that perpetuate this desire, accepting this desire as the norm, and by dropping the conscious desire to resolve the suffering.

20. By dropping the conscious desire to resolve suffering, and accepting the subconscious desire to suffer as the norm, there is no longer anything that needs to be resolved. Suffering is no longer suffering. By dropping the desire to resolve suffering, you have resolved all suffering!

21. Every day, each person goes through the gambit of suffering in one form or another at some level. This could take the form of frustration, impatience, worry, regret, wanting, dissatisfaction, anger, disappointment, or hate, to name a few. Any thought that results in conflict is suffering.

22. Now that we know it is our nature to subconsciously crave suffering, this knowledge can be used by the conscious mind to minimize our suffering.

23. Use this thought process to mitigate suffering caused by a traffic jam. It worked for me. "I'm stuck in traffic. It will eventually end. This is a situation that could give rise to my subconscious craving for suffering being consciously acted out. As such I expect frustration and impatience to cause nervous discomfort, or suffering, to take over my body and mind, if they haven't already. At the instant I began to expect my mind to become impatient and frustrated, I stepped out of the mind and became the observer of the mind. While waiting for my mind to become frustrated, as I knew it would, I looked at the nature around me, the people in the other cars, even the grass blowing in the median. I suddenly became very interested in my surroundings, even fascinated. As traffic began to move I was almost sad and began to smile because the traffic starting up again had became a source of suffering! At this I laughed out loud, and realized that the traffic jam had caused no suffering at all--it was the starting up again that did, until I caught myself and had a good laugh!"

24. Because I became the observer of the mind as I waited for traffic to move, frustration and impatience never happened. Why? Because I expected them to. I suddenly realized then that me and the impatience I feel are not the same thing. This means that any time I feel any kind of suffering, the me who observes my mind is always absent. When I realize that my suffering was supposed to arise due to whatever situation caused it and that I'm supposed to suffer due to my subconscious craving for it, I once again become the observer of my mind. When I again step outside the mind to observe it and smile because the mind was just doing its job, the suffering ends!

25. When a situation arises that would normally cause you to suffer in some way, try this. Mentally list the different forms of suffering that you expect your mind will conjure as a result of the situation, and due to your subconscious programming that craves the suffering.

26. As you go through the list of ways you will suffer, stop and wait for them to start showing up. As you wait for them to show up, you'll realize that they aren't showing up at all--because you are again the observer of the mind. But if you "lose" the observer in thought, the suffering will arise. Now is where you realize that the first form of suffering has come. As soon as you realize you are suffering, you'll know that the conscious mind has manifested the subconscious craving for suffering and again you'll step out into the observer mode, and the suffering will stop--that is, if you want it to.

27. As human subconscious programming would have it, you unknowingly crave suffering. Generally speaking, if asked whether most humans would prefer peace or suffering, they'll say they prefer peace. But some people sometimes actually enjoy suffering. It gives them a defined enemy, "me against the world," or it makes them a victim or it makes them righteous. Some people cling to the suffering and it gives them something to talk about at all times, the very interesting story of me and my suffering. And since I know the story and you don't, I am above you even if there is no possible way you could know my story, and even if your story is ten times more exciting than mine. Why? Because my story is the most important story in the world and don't you forget it. These are the thoughts of those who enjoy suffering.

28.when we move beyond or at least recognize our own suffering, it makes us less likely to cause suffering in others. When this happens your existence is not detrimental to the collective human state of suffering, which has improved only marginally in thousands of years. It is incumbent upon humanity to increase the time spent observing the mind and decrease the time spent being the mind. Again, when you lose yourself in the mind, suffering ensues. When you wake up to be the observer of your mind, suffering subsides.

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