Ego Trip – Quotes

You see a lot

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff. Frank Gehry

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into. Dada Vaswani

When you go to

When you go to a movie with so many stars [like The Expendables 3], you don’t know what you’re going to find, exactly. You don’t know if it’s going to be an ego trip, ego on the set, who is taking this position, where the camera is, I want to be in front of this … Read more

The biggest ego trip

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist. Alan Watts

To think you know

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip. Alan Cohen

You may be trying

You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego.
Rajneesh

How to find joy?

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: I want to be this, I want to be that – more money, more power, more prestige.
Rajneesh

You will have to

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has … Read more

Meditation is like light:

Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips. Rajneesh

One has to be

One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is … Read more