Ego

Ego is the worst confidence trickster we could ever figure, we could ever imagine,
'cause 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 needs to protect their Egos know no bounds, they would lie, cheat, steal,
kill, do whatever it takes, to maintain what we call Ego boundaries...

...People have no clue that they are 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 is something beyond itself,
that there is 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 realises how smart
the Ego is, because it created the Devil that you blame someone else...

...in creating the imaginary external enemy, we usually made a real enemy for
ourselves, and that becomes the real danger to the Ego, but that is also Ego's
creation...

...There is no such thing as 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% of our external enemies are of our own
creation...

...your greatest enemy is your inner perception, is your own ignorance, is your own Ego.