I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.
Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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.