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Originally Posted by Ulic Qel-Droma
well it all leads down to... personal identity. anytime you identify yourself as "self" vs "others" or "outside"... that's ego is it not?
my understanding of ego was always, anything that relates to identifying yourself as... self... vs the rest of existence.
here we go... urbandictionary LOL
the first entry is exactly how i define ego
as for feeling superior to others or feeling the need for self importance...
you have to look beyond those feelings to as WHY you feel that way.
I mean, I wont hesitate to say I feel more important and superior to some beggar in some slum somewhere. But I realise that's just my ego speaking. Reality is, I'm no more important than any other atom in existence if looking at it from a grand cosmic scale... of all existence, no one thing is more important than another.
Of course if we look at a different scenario... say hiring a person to do a job, would you hire a junkie or a hardworker? the hard worker is obviously superior and more important... but ONLY in that closed loop. only in that small bubble... which the job is being reviewed by someone with an ego... the company is owned by someone with an ego. ego's only matter when they're enclosed in a circle which is controlled by another ego.
but if you look at the larger scales, where ego is dissolved (or appears to be from our small perspective)... really individuals, egos, personalities, don't matter. it's all an illusion we brought upon ourselves.
so really, ego matters only depending on your end game goal. if your perspective of life is limited only to your own limited time on this earth and the interactions with the people around you... or if you're thinking beyond that, beyond life, beyond humans.
at the end of the day, it's impossible to be egoless. but like i said before... the least we can do is be aware of it and how it affects the course of our actions.
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the keyword in the description i provided was
an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
that is probably the topic of this thread.
but yes, no one is egoless. so to OP, don't feel like you're abnormal. everyone has a barrier.