Uncovering the ego in yourself is confusing and complicated. Eckhart Tolle has studied the ego, and describes it as that “voice in the head”, the “incessant thinking and the emotions that are associated with it”, it comes from the “thinker” in us, and is not who we really are.
The egoic thoughts always contain the “sense of self” in every thought, says Eckhart. They are based on “Identification with previously held opinions, our nationality, race, religion,etc. or items that make us feel separate from other groups, either superior to, or not as good as, but in any case they separate us from the rest of the world in some way.
The native philosophy was based on the oneness or circle of life that connects us all, and this folktale says what ego is in a simple story:
