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The ego is the worst confidence trickster we could ever figure, we could ever imagine

Because you don't see it

And the single biggest con is I am you

The problem is that the ego hides in the last place that you'd ever look, within itself

It disguises its thoughts as your thoughts, its feelings as your feelings

You think it's you

People's need to protect their own egos knows no bounds

They will lie, cheat, steal

Kill, do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundaries

People have no clue that they're in prison

They don't know that there is an ego

They

Don't know the distinction

At first it's difficult for the mind to accept that there's something beyond itself

That there's something of greater value and greater capacity for discerning truth than itself

In religion, the ego manifests as the devil

And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could

Blame someone else

In creating this imaginary external enemy, we usually usually made a real

Enemy for ourselves

And that becomes a real danger to the ego, but that's also the ego's

Creation

There is no such thing as an external enemy, no matter what that voice in your head is

Telling you

All perception of an enemy is a projection of the ego as the enemy

In that sense, you could say that 100 percent of our external enemies are of our own creation

Your greatest enemy is your own inner perception, is your own ignorance, is your own ego.