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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.

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.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

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 a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.