Osho Quotes On Ego
- The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker for heaven, it can hanker for nirvana. It doesn`t matter what it hankers for -- hankering is what it is, desiring is what it is, projecting into the future is what it is.
- Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.
- Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego
exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even
in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will
find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the
Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is
still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.
- 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.
- When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it.
- Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.
- I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to
the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you are -- but you don`t
have any notion of being an ego, of being an I. In other words: the more
you think you are, the less you are; the more you experience that you are
not... the more you are.
- Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create
anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never
become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the
beyond.
- Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness.
Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you
are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego,
unconsciousness.
- Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A
man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind -- because to will means
to keep yourself separate from existence. It is a little subtle, but try
to feel it. The moment you will it means you are always willing against
things as they are. You want them to be some other way.
- I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to
disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only
emptiness; it is always unfulfilled. By the very nature, by its very
intrinsic nature, it cannot attain to fulfillment. When you are not,
fulfillment is. Call it God, or give it a name Patanjali would like --
samadhi -- the attainment of the ultimate, but it comes when you
disappear.
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