Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

With this ego arises all the problems, the thousand and one problems. This ego will not allow you to fall in love and millions of problems will arise in your life. This ego would like everybody to surrender to you; this ego will not allow you to surrender to anybody - and love happens only when you surrender. When you force somebody to surrender, it is hate, destruction, it is not love.