What Is "Ego"?
(multiple-choice test)
A) It means "I"
B) It's what you're talking about or referring to when you say "I" (like, "I want this, I do that")
C) It's probably your answer to the question "who am I?"
D) "We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins." - Tennessee Williams
E) It's your "identity", or who you think you are.
F) It is something close to what we mean when we say somebody has "a big ego": in other words, they see themselves as being something they're really not. It's an inaccurate self-image, a wrong idea of who you actually are.
G) It is the basis of all television, commercials, marketing, salesmanship, politics, economics, and just about everything else.
H) It is, in the field of psychology, a necessary aspect in the growth of your mind and emotions; a product of childhood conditioning; a crucial self-organizing principle of the human personality, the command center of the psyche that coordinates the different aspects of the self, without with it could not function.
I) It is one reason why drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, bad television, cough syrup, and other things can be so attractive: because they offer a temporary escape from it, whatever it is.
J) It is "the enemy within," the key ingredient to The Problem of Life "the root of all evil, the enemy of a genuine spiritual life."
K) "The Matrix": it is the veil that "has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth . .. . a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind."
L) Freud: it is the agile rider of the two horses of instinct and conscience, negotiating the competing demands of both inner and outer forces.
M) Why does Hannibal Lecter kill? "Because he feels like God. Would you want to give that up?" - from the movie Red Dragon
N) "Dear Police: I Am God." - note written from a sniper who killed many people chosen at random.
O) It is that part of almost every person who wants to be God . . . but isn't.
P) It is that subtle sense of separation that keeps us distant from whatever we love.
Q) William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite." (in this case, "ego" is apparently the "door of perception").
R) It is whatever it is that which gets in the way of real happiness
S) "I know what you'd like. Be honest. Generally you'd like to get your own way, get whatever you want, get back at anyone whom you perceive as having crossed you, get your dreams and fantasies to come true right now, get ahead with less sacrifice and effort, and get away with murder (figuratively, I hope) - all without any consequesences or regrets." - Laura Schlessinger
T) ". . . the human face of (that form of) ego is pride; is arrogant self-importance; is narcissistic self-infatuation; is the need to see oneself as being separate at all times, in all places, through all circumstances - and that ego is the unrelenting enemy of all that is truly wholesome in the human experience."
U) "Fear arises in the mind when a sense of being a separate self (in distinction to what is outside of self)
appears in consciousness. For when there is a self, divided from the other, there is an inherent possibility of harm at the hands of that other." V. J. Fedorschak
V) It is a blinding and dulling identification with a separated sense of self, or in other words, a state of being identified with a split-off, separated, unique something.
W) It's a necessary but not sufficient condition for getting through life.
X) It's needed to stave off both psychosis and God.
Y) Ammachi: ("What is ego?") "You are actually asking, what is unreality? But how can unreality be described? What use is there in talking about something that isn't real, that is nonexistent? And how can you speak about that which is real? Amma can only give you a few hints. The mind is the ego. But the ego is a big lie - it is a liar. It is unreal."
Z) A word which is Aramaic is "naphsha", understood as the controlling entity behind the physical, mental, and behaving self." as mentioned in Matthew 10:39: "He who finds his own naphsha shall lose it, but he who loses his own naphsha for my way shall find it."
(multiple-choice test)
A) It means "I"
B) It's what you're talking about or referring to when you say "I" (like, "I want this, I do that")
C) It's probably your answer to the question "who am I?"
D) "We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins." - Tennessee Williams
E) It's your "identity", or who you think you are.
F) It is something close to what we mean when we say somebody has "a big ego": in other words, they see themselves as being something they're really not. It's an inaccurate self-image, a wrong idea of who you actually are.
G) It is the basis of all television, commercials, marketing, salesmanship, politics, economics, and just about everything else.
H) It is, in the field of psychology, a necessary aspect in the growth of your mind and emotions; a product of childhood conditioning; a crucial self-organizing principle of the human personality, the command center of the psyche that coordinates the different aspects of the self, without with it could not function.
I) It is one reason why drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, bad television, cough syrup, and other things can be so attractive: because they offer a temporary escape from it, whatever it is.
J) It is "the enemy within," the key ingredient to The Problem of Life "the root of all evil, the enemy of a genuine spiritual life."
K) "The Matrix": it is the veil that "has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth . .. . a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind."
L) Freud: it is the agile rider of the two horses of instinct and conscience, negotiating the competing demands of both inner and outer forces.
M) Why does Hannibal Lecter kill? "Because he feels like God. Would you want to give that up?" - from the movie Red Dragon
N) "Dear Police: I Am God." - note written from a sniper who killed many people chosen at random.
O) It is that part of almost every person who wants to be God . . . but isn't.
P) It is that subtle sense of separation that keeps us distant from whatever we love.
Q) William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite." (in this case, "ego" is apparently the "door of perception").
R) It is whatever it is that which gets in the way of real happiness
S) "I know what you'd like. Be honest. Generally you'd like to get your own way, get whatever you want, get back at anyone whom you perceive as having crossed you, get your dreams and fantasies to come true right now, get ahead with less sacrifice and effort, and get away with murder (figuratively, I hope) - all without any consequesences or regrets." - Laura Schlessinger
T) ". . . the human face of (that form of) ego is pride; is arrogant self-importance; is narcissistic self-infatuation; is the need to see oneself as being separate at all times, in all places, through all circumstances - and that ego is the unrelenting enemy of all that is truly wholesome in the human experience."
U) "Fear arises in the mind when a sense of being a separate self (in distinction to what is outside of self)
appears in consciousness. For when there is a self, divided from the other, there is an inherent possibility of harm at the hands of that other." V. J. Fedorschak
V) It is a blinding and dulling identification with a separated sense of self, or in other words, a state of being identified with a split-off, separated, unique something.
W) It's a necessary but not sufficient condition for getting through life.
X) It's needed to stave off both psychosis and God.
Y) Ammachi: ("What is ego?") "You are actually asking, what is unreality? But how can unreality be described? What use is there in talking about something that isn't real, that is nonexistent? And how can you speak about that which is real? Amma can only give you a few hints. The mind is the ego. But the ego is a big lie - it is a liar. It is unreal."
Z) A word which is Aramaic is "naphsha", understood as the controlling entity behind the physical, mental, and behaving self." as mentioned in Matthew 10:39: "He who finds his own naphsha shall lose it, but he who loses his own naphsha for my way shall find it."
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