Top 1200 Ego And Soul Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You can change the word marriage to the word soul mates, but you are the same. You will make the same hell out of soul mates as you have been making out of marriage - nothing has changed, only the word, the label. Don't believe in labels too much.

This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

Ego can be a dangerous thing. We all have one but it needs to be contained.

Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music.

Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.

My DVR, like, sees inside my soul, and inside my soul is a 65-year-old retired woman. So there's Food Network, HGTV and 'Golden Girls' reruns. And 'Roseanne.'

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

I am not a loser. It's not that I have a ego, but I do believe in winning.

Love is transcending the ego to connect with another.

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

Do things the ego does not like to do.

Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?

The ego hates losing – even to God.

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

The soul creates, the mind reacts. The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself

I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!

Show me success without ego!

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

God is the collective ego of the world

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Country music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul!

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.

If the cost is lowering one's ego and a bit of money, so be it.

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Well, putting words on paper isn't your job. Your job is to go digging around in your soul. And that's the end of it all. A songwriter's job is to go digging around in his soul. And come up with, and put to paper, what others can't express about the soul itself.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.