Sublime

The underlying emotion that governs all the activity of the ego is fear. The fear of being nobody, the fear of nonexistence, the fear of death. All its activities are ultimately designed to eliminate this fear, but the most the ego can ever do is to cover it up temporarily with an intimate relationship, a new possession, or winning at this or that.

The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are. 4 Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is all you can be sure of. 5 Everything else is open to question.

When we are fused with our ego, we are driven to make decisions informed by external factors—what others will think or what outcomes can be achieved.

Process-oriented thinking gets around this problem by defining the ego as one of our possible observers. The ego is, to begin with at least, the "I" which identifies itself with the doings of the world.

L’ego n’est rien de plus qu’une construction mentale plus durable que les autres parce qu’elle est constamment renforcée par nos chaînes de pensées. Cela n’empêche pas ce concept illusoire d’être dénué d’existence propre. Cette étiquette tenace ne tient sur le flux de notre conscience que grâce à la colle magique de la confusion mentale.

The ego is like clothing that people mistake for themselves. It is something that comes on and off, changes with the weather, and has different appearances and constructs, based on social context and personal attitude. The ego is not bad. It just has bad habits and tends to form attachments to illusions. Getting rid of it permanently is not the

The ego we see most commonly goes by a more casual definition: an unhealthy belief in our own importance. Arrogance. Self-centered ambition.