The ego distorts reality and creates a false self-image, acting as a barrier to genuine awareness. When you see the ego clearly in the moment, you can choose your response: silence, strength, or something else. Awareness, not ego, can guide what you do.
What role does our ego play in blocking awareness? In a certain way, we could accurately say that the ego is the source of blocking awareness, because the ego is pretending to be God. And so it has a skew. And if the awareness is really there, it will see the ego as it is in the moment. And so there has to be a modification and say, okay, my ego says And if I look at it as to what's really going to create well-being, I'm going to let my awareness of my ego change my response, maybe to be silent, maybe to be strong, but the ego is always warping reality.
