Life is a series
of choices. Those choices are heavily influenced by ego. Ego makes its choices
based on its definitions. How it defines family, money, success and any other
choice is based on its definition of those things. If you define family as
someone who gives you support, then the ego must also define what support is, is it emotional, is it financial or is it abuse, ect. If you define money as
evil, then all your subsequent choices are based on that definition. If you
define success as being well-known by everyone, then all your choices are based
on knowing as many people as you can, and everything that entails.
One thing
that you must always keep in mind is that the ego is mostly negative and is not
looking out for your interest but it’s own interest. That interest can be as basic
as raw survival and its definition of survival.
When the ego
is faced with a do or die situation, it will change its definition of things in
order to make them fit. The ego will never admit that it is wrong or that it
has done wrong. It will always justify everything that it does.
Every wrong,
every war, every murder and every crime that has ever been committed on earth, has been done so by ego.
