The ego grows from a sense of lack and craving for external validation. You want a car not for the car itself, but to feel better or impress others. This neediness is how the ego drives desire.
The ego grows from a sense of lack and craving for external validation. You want a car not for the car itself, but to feel better or impress others. This neediness is how the ego drives desire.
The egoic part is wanting something. So the ego comes not from fullness, but from neediness, from a sense of not enough. And so it says, where can I get. And that is the ego desire. The ego. I desire that car because I will really feel better when I'm sitting in that car and driving it, especially if other people see me in it.
Why alcohol feels like relief, and what it is really giving you | Eckhart Tolle
