Ego Trap Quotes

To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like that. You can get serious about seriousness. Then instead of one, you have created two diseases. Then you can get serious about that also, and you can go on and on. There is no end to it; it can go on AD NAUSEAM.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

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

With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away.

Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don't choose choicelessness! Otherwise, listening to me or to Sosan or Krishnamurti you will become enchanted by the word 'choicelessness.' Your mind will say, "This is very good. Then ecstasy is possible and much bliss will happen to you if you become choicelessness. Then the door of the mysteries of life will be opened." The mind feels greedy. The mind says, "Okay, so I will choose choicelessness." The door is closed, only the label is changed, but you have fallen a victim of the old trick.

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.