ego – What’s here now?

The inflation of the ego is brought about by its identification with the collective values.

— Carl Jung

Just as a man still is what he always was, so he already is what he will become. The conscious mind does not embrace the totality of a man, for this totality consists only partly of his conscious contents, and for the other and far greater part, of his unconscious, which is of indefinite extent with no assignable limits. In this totality the conscious mind is contained like a smaller circle within a larger one. Hence it is quite possible for the ego to be made into an object, that is to say, for a more compendious personality to emerge in the course of development and take the ego into its service.

— Carl Jung

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That’s all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

— Charlotte ‘Joko’ Beck

The ego thinks it knows what you want. The unconscious knows what you need.

Our ego erroneously takes credit for its alleged thoughts and actions when instead the appropriate behaviour is to take responsibility for our unconscious.