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The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is the very essence of life.

By Deepak Chopra
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Deepak Chopra, MD, is a prolific Indian American author, speaker, and alternative medicine advocate. His work focuses on integrative medicine and personal transformation at the intersection of science and spirituality.

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Why Your Self-Image Might Be Wrong: Ego, Buddhism, and Freud | Mark Epstein | Big Think

You first develop your ego when you are two or three years old. It creeps into existence the moment you realize that you are not empty—you are a self, and everyone else has a self in them. As you grow up, it latches onto positive and negative feedback and uses them to build the story of who you are.

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Mark Epstein
2018
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One-Sided Love Relationship

Eckhart Tolle explains the ego's role in love relationships.

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Eckhart Tolle
2008
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Gangaji - Revealing Strategies of the Ego

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Gangaji
2011
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The Void: Inner Spaciousness and Ego Structure

The first volume in an eye-opening series on the Diamond Mind—a deep understanding of human nature—that combines Freudian psychology with Eastern philosophy and spirituality.

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A. H. Almaas
2000
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The Ego & the Id

All human behaviors and traits, according to this 1923 study, derive from the complicated interactions of three elements of the psyche: the id, the ego, and the superego.

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Sigmund Freud
2018
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Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self

Aion, originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung’s later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ.

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C. G. Jung, Gerhard Adler (translator), R. F.C. Hull (translator)
1979
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