The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself. —Richard Burton More about this quote Tags: humanity religion ego self-regard Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. —Peter McArthur More about this quote Tags: ego satire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing. —Brian Koffman More about this quote Tags: humor silence ego discomfort Buddhism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day … we become seekers. —Peter Matthiessen More about this quote Tags: ideas ego opinions abstractions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can write, think, and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. —Evelyn Waugh More about this quote Tags: others ego aspiration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They want to hear that Buddhism is the answer to all of their problems, not a big fat arrow pointing to the source of all of their problems: ego. —Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk More about this quote Tags: ego answers Buddhism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email