Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simpl…

Alan Watts
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism. ✨ Alan Watts (1999). Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion, p.29, Tuttle Publishing
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