Not who we really are, a social mask, a role we are playing.
The need for approval, the need to control things and the need for external power.
Fear based.

Relating to thinking about yourself or centering everything around yourself.

Ego is legion, demons inside us, an army of demons triying to use you and your energy to survive.

Ego divides in seven heads, wich explains the seven demons Crist expeled from Mary Magdalene, or the seven demonds Crist expeled from the wild man and threw them to the pigs.
Its heads are the famous seven sins from christianity:
Lust:
Avarice:
Pride:
Rage:
Glutony:
Jellousy:
Lazyness:

As sons of god we have an escence of our father inside, wich we have to find and encarnate. To do it we must observe ourselves and know ourself and eliminate every thoughts and actions coming from the ego. That reminds me what says at the Temple of Delphos (or something like that) "Know yourself, and you will have knolegde of god and the whole universe".

We are asleep, we live like machines, CONTROLED. People live and die and at the end they didnt even know the purpose of their existence. We must wake up and think for ourselves, not what the ego tells us to do. Eliminate what controls you and find out who you really are, no matter what religion you practice or no.

97% of the thing that comes across our minds is not us, its ego. We must awake our consciousness and only live the PRESENT wich is the only real thing, the past passed and the future is uncertain.

Something that most people who add this word to Urban Dictionary, get wrong.

Ego roughly literally translates as the conscious mind or consciousness of your own identity.

the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.

For materialist world, the ego could provide the evolutive energy but also the destructive energy depends on how you deal with it. For spiritual world, there is no need for ego, there we are only one entity.

Self Concept; the persons own definition or idea of his or her own self worth - value and capability of the individual - in relation to the external world surrounding the individual. A person can have a big ego and have an idea of his or her worth where it is bigger than what the external world reflects; and therefore become depressed when the world refuses to mirror the persons self concept; this is also related to narcissism (NPD) where a 'narcissist' is the same thing as a person with an overinflated - but still weak - ego.

A big - inflated - ego is not the same thing as a -strong- ego; where a strong ego is more about exterminating false ideas of ones self the person is born with; which contains ideas of omnipotence and other mythological concepts we openly culturally only accept in 'gods' or superheroes but is still available as a subconcious self-concept among people with weak yet inflated egos; where accepting the lack of realism among these over-inflated traits and therefore discarding them as available in oneself (and others) and accepting weaknesses and flaws as a respectable - unavoidable; occuring in all individuals - part of the personality; thus removing insecurities and fears of loss of value since the person understands he has no value or traits that makes him or her superior to other to begin with. And therefore can't lose value in displays that demonstrates he or her lacks superior traits.

A song by Beyonce, where she cleverly talks about a certain someones dick size. She repeatedly mentions how his "Ego" is: too tough, too strong, too big, too wide, and how it won't fit. I think Jay-Z is taking viagra. And in the remix, Kanye West throws in how his "hahaha ego" is so big, and he wants her to "stroke my big hahaha ego". Nice. But I do love the song. =D

A word meaning to feel more superior than others.