Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.

What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away.

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.

The ego is a very bad quality. Ego sees everything as separate.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Even highly advanced yogis can become the victims of ego. For this reason one must develop devotion to the Lord, along with the practice of meditation, to eliminate any downfall.

Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

When we are inadequate ourselves but our ego is strong, we tend to blame others.

Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.

See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.