Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.
– Alan Cohen
Related Quotes:
- Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself. – Augustine of Hippo
- Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me. – Gautama Buddha
- What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either. – Lou AndreasSalom
- Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. – Debasish Mridha
- What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation. – Dada Bhagwan
- You don’t kill your ego. You overcome it by loving other people. And for that you need both ego and super-ego. – Robin Sacredfire
- The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present. – Alan Cohen
- Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable. – Alan Cohen
- The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – GK Chesterton
- Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. – Arab proverb
- Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away! – Ana Claudia Antunes
- Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos. – Assegid Habtewold
- Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in – Tennessee Williams
- The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear. – Alan Cohen
- Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are. – Alan Cohen
- Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought. – Alan Cohen
- I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so. – Kiera C
- We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other – you know, and notice our identity – Julianne Moore
- The old resists the new one.’Change hurts’ is the reason. – Toba Beta
- If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Great battles that prevail in actions had been won or lost earlier in thoughts. When the mind resists change, it’s in vain the legs chase it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. – Alan W Watts
- Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind. – Dada Bhagwan
- The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world. – Dada Bhagwan
- What I want, it is my ego’s demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that. – Debasish Mridha
- Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness. – Frank Wanderer
- Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don’t accept the ego of ordinary people. – Amit Kalantri
- Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag. – RuPaul
- Your ego decides the humanity in you…Higher the ego lesser the humanity…. – Adil Adam Memon
- Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love. – Human Angels
- I let go of all that I had thought was wounded, for there is no ego to wound, no ego to hold on with; there is only love & freedom to love. – Jay Woodman
- Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. – Alan Cohen
- Forgiveness doesn’t make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong. – Alan Cohen
- Money is but one venue for generosity.Kindness is an even more valuable currency. – Alan Cohen
- Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not. – Alan Cohen
- If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt. – Alan Cohen
- Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good. – Alan Cohen
- The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most. – Alan Cohen