Did you ever feel like you wanted to do something completely different to what you actually ended up doing? With all the right intentions and the will in the world, you could not stop the actions you took and were helpless to observe yourself destroy the things you treasure? Welcome to the dark side. There [...]

Ego according to a definition found on the Princeton Univ website is “self: your consciousness of your own identity”. This is what Wikipedia has to say about ego. And the wikipedia definition is what I have come to believe in time. Understanding the ego is far more complex than it first seems and perhaps holds [...]

I found this really amusing. Listening to Eckhart Tolle on the Oprah Winfrey show, I heard him talk about how we have conversations with ourself. How we refer to ourselves as second person. For example, I might ask myself “what are you going to do about it”. It is almost like there is me but [...]