Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
Ego is good.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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