The empty ego

The ego seeks to only satisfy the pleasures of the mind and flesh. It seeks to fulfill itself through the idea of what it is seeking and not the reality of it.

When the ego wants physical or spiritual love it must seek through ideas, images, opinions and beliefs to search for them. It does not know them, it is dead to them unless a symbol or label is presented to it that it understands in an idea. It knows no reality other than the idea it uses to seek for something to possess it. It is almost a lifeless presence with the insatiable desire to find fulfillment in ways that it never can. It is unlife seeking expression as life. It is the ultimate idea of self, yet separate from the reality of self. It is the mind believing it is all that exists.

If you live from your ego you will never find life, fulfillment, peace, love or understanding. You will aggressively search for them in all the faces and ideas that life presents you, but you will never find them by trying to possess or control them. The ego is all that is, in opposition to what is real. What is, is within you and you do not need an ego to find it. The ego cannot find what is real, because it is itself not real.