From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.