Spiritual Quotes on Ego

• The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable. - Osho
   
• Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• All troubles come to an end when the ego dies. - Ramakrishna
   
• The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false -- they never meet. - Osho
   
• The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things. - Meher Baba
   
• The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream through wealth, somebody else achieves that dream through power, politics, somebody else can achieve that dream through miracles, jugglery, but the dream remains the same: - Osho
   
• Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump. - Ramakrishna
   
• The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder. - Osho
   
• What is the ego? Enquire. The body is insentient and cannot say `I'. The Self is pure consciousness and non-dual. It cannot say `I'. No one says `I' in sleep. What is the ego then? It is something intermediate between the inert body and the Self. It has no locus standi. If sought for it vanishes like a ghost. - Ramana Maharshi