Ego? What?

EGO. . . this is a necessary aspect in the growth of our mind and emotion or a crucial self-organizing principle of the human personality. It is one reason why drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, bad television, cough syrup, and other things can be so attractive: because they offer a temporary escape from it. It is "the enemy within," the key ingredient to The Problem of Life "the root of all evil, the enemy of a genuine spiritual life." This is that emotional and psychological knot in consciousness that is the fundamental cause of the sense of separation from all of life. From the spiritual perspective, this is defined as pride, self-importance, and the narcissistic need to always see oneself as being separate – separate from others, separate from the world, separate from the whole universe and a love-denying obsession with separation, narcissism, and self-concern. Some of us always talked about EGO and they seem to know what they're talking about. But then again, it often seems to us, your daring, fearless, and occasionally confused, that a lot of the time, they're actually talking about different things
- without knowing it.



". . . the human face of ego is pride; is arrogant self-importance; is narcissistic self-infatuation; is the need to see oneself as being separate at all times, in all places, through all circumstances - and that ego is the unrelenting enemy of all that is truly wholesome in the human experience."



"My ego will be gone if i will learn how to accept the fact that im the person known by others and i don't need to pretend to please anyone..."