Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.” Lying Ego Identity ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.” Children Names Ego ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.” Use Technology Ego ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.” Years Mind Ego ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.” Mind Body Ego ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.” Dream Drama Ego ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.” Want Ego Satisfaction ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.” Ego Defense Insecure ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.” Memories Ego Achievement ♥ 3
Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author “I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.” People Views Ego ♥ 3
Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author “The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.” Suffering Ego Noble ♥ 3
Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author “All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.” Real Opinion Ego ♥ 3
