[Circlewerk]

Originally Posted by Jenny

Looking back on your life with Pride is an ego thing .

Jenny

Accurate observation, Jenny.

I thought I'd add a page from A New Earth here, to better break down the "ego" from an objective, educated point of view.
And because I couldn't have said it better myself.

" Most people are so completely identified with the voice in the head-the incessant stream of involuntary and compulsive thinking and emotions that accompany it-that we may describe them as being possessed by their mind. As long as you are completely unaware of this, you take the thinker to be who you are. This is the egoic mind. We call it egoic because there is a sense of self, of I (ego), in every thought-memory, every interpretation, opinion, viewpoint, reaction, emotion.
This is unconsciousness, spiritually speaking. Your thinking, the content of your mind, is of course conditioned by the past: your upbringing, culture, family background, and so on. The central core of all your mind activity consists of certain repetitive and persistent thoughts, emotions, and reactive patterns that you identify with most strongly.This entity is the ego itself.
In most cases, when you say "I," it is the ego speaking, not you, as we have seen.
It consists of thought & emotions, of a bundle of memories you identify with as, " Me & my story," of habitual roles you play without knowing it, of collective identifications such as nationality, religion, race, social class, or political allegiance.
It also contains personal identifications, not only with possessions, but also with opinions, external appearance, long standing resentments, or concepts as yourself as better than, or not as good as others, as a success or failure.

The content of the ego varies from person to person, but in every ego, the same structure operates. In other words: Ego's only differ on the surface. Deep down, they are all the same. In what way are they the same? They live on identification & separation."