ego

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If the ego is a good thing, God or Jesus would have said so, but they did not, they keep reminding us that pride (ego) is a road block to true happiness.

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  1. noun The self, especially as distinct from the world and other selves.
  2. noun In psychoanalysis, the division of the psyche that is conscious, most immediately controls thought and behavior, and is most in touch with external reality.
  3. noun An exaggerated sense of self-importance; conceit.
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  • To a Westerner, who would decry this loss of personality, the bhikkhus would probably reply that the sur­render of the ego was a price worth paying for the inner peace of Nibbana, which is probably impossible for anybody who is still immured in selfhood But the impersonality of the Buddha and his disciples did not mean that they were cold and unfeeling. —  Buddha
  • It seems that his ego is as big as the words of wisdom from Blagojevich in 2005, after he prevented his father-in-law from cashing in on his office (no, I'm not kidding): —  Daily Kos
  • Then the ego is a big mitigation against listening. —  Muti
  • Splitting the ego is an unconscious process by which one part of the self is allowed to get away with things another part of the self would never even try, let alone countenance. —  AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
  • Under the watchful eye of the great Lincoln, the ego is the Las Vegas Elvis, with all the undertones of the delusions of kingship. —  The latest from newcritics
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. New Latin, from Latin, I; see eg in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, translation of German Ich, a special use of ich, I, as a psychoanalytic term.

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  1. from Latin ego = Greek ἐγώ = Anglo-Saxon ic, English I: see I.
 

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