Eckhart Tolle explains the ego as an unobserved mental energy formation that creates a persistent sense of dissatisfaction and incompleteness. He argues this mental structure drives the feeling that something is always missing from your life.
The ego is a sense of self that arises when the mind is completely unobserved. The unobserved mind brings about the ego. In fact, the unobserved mind is the ego. These are mental structures which are energy formations. Because every thought is an energy formation. Energy formations in your head that you that say, that's me, that's me and my life. And there are certain characteristics to this egoic state. One characteristic is that it exists in a state of frequent dissatisfaction, discontent. And there's an underlying. An undercurrent of something vital is missing in my life.
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