{"quotes":[{"text":"Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["church","cults","ego","movements","politics","reality","religion"],"id":422,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.","author":"Assegid Habtewold","tags":["ego","identity","true-self"],"id":743,"author_id":"Assegid+Habtewold"},{"text":"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["animal","arrogance","be-yourself","chase","circle","consideration","dog","ego","help","helping-others","narcissism","others","pet","pride","pursue","rhetorical","self","selfish","selflessness","serve","serving-others"],"id":764,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["ego","egoism","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":826,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["defense-mechanism","defensiveness","ego","enlightenment","enlightenment-and-attitude","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","personal-development","personal-growth"],"id":2152,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["ego","lost","self","thoughts"],"id":2452,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down that block communication, cause mis-communication and dissolution of trust, that kill a bond.--TAMMY WOOSTER 1/15.","author":"Tammy Wooster","tags":["apologizing","ego","humility","pride"],"id":2806,"author_id":"Tammy+Wooster"},{"text":"It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","ego","egoism","soul","spiritual","spiritual-science","who-am-i"],"id":2945,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ego","giving","habit","love","narcissism","pride","selfishness","selflessness","service","taking"],"id":3110,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.","author":"Evita Ochel","tags":["ego","enlightenment","liberation","mind","mindfulness","personal-development","personal-evolution","personal-growth","self-actualization","self-awareness","self-realization"],"id":3506,"author_id":"Evita+Ochel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1078,"pages":108,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}