According to my observations, the ego is a wicked selfish liar that has good grounds for its tactics. That is only true, of course, if we believe the lies. The ego has so much power of persuassion to demand control over our emotions and to dominate our lives if we listen to that destructive force.
When the ego is reasoning with our conscience, it tricks us into believing the problem is the very body it resides in. But, since it has no life elsewhere, it must protect its life in our heads by depending on our belief in the ego.
Conflicting scenarios we face must be defended at all costs for it is too ugly to face the truth and expose the embarrassing weakness it never fails to recognise. The opposite of our self is created, but the opposite is anything but us. According to the ego, something else has to be the cause to blame in order to keep us as a slave for the ego's survival.
There is no real enemy except in the structure of our thoughts, for the enemy was created as something to point a finger at in disgust. Anything to detract us from the desperate guilt felt ; we lie to ourselves yet we can't seem to do anything other than what the ego commands, and that is, to keep the ugliness hidden!
Ego is an invisible covering
surrounding your being.
It is not energy, it is ignorance....
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way...
http://www.andrewcohen.org/teachings/ego.asp
