ego reduction Quotes

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

I'm not as cocky as I used to be.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

I want people to have less me.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.

In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible.