In Englisch und hoffentlich fehlerfrei
Sorry, aber eine Übersetzung wäre hier schwachsinnig:
The ego is the worst confidence trickster we could ever figure, we could ever imagine. Because: you don’t see it.
And the single biggest con is that ‘I am you.’
The problem, is that the ego hides in the last place you’d ever look, within itself.
It disguises it’s thoughts as your thoughts, it’s feelings with your feelings, you think it’s you.
People’s need to protect their own ego knows no bounds, they will lie, cheat, steal, kill, do whatever it takes to maintain what we call, ego boundaries.
People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.
At first it’s difficult for the mind to accept that there’s something beyond itself, that there’s something of greater value and of greater capacity for discerning truth than itself.
In religion the ego manifests as the devil, and of course no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.
In creating this imaginary external enemy we usually made a real enemy for ourselves and that becomes a real danger to the ego but it’s also the ego’s creation.
There is no such thing as an external enemy, no matter what that voice in your head is telling you. All perception of an enemy is a projection of the ego as the enemy.
In that sense, you can say that 100% of our external enemies are of our own creation.
Your greatest enemy is your own inner perception, your own ignorance, is your own ego.