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The Other Side of Ego Is in Security
The other side of ego is in security. When you turn up the dial ego, you're simultaneously turning up the dial on insecurity. And that's why egoism and machismo is always under girded and betrayed by insecurity and vulnerability at the end of the day. You start by treating yourself a little nicer, because you are the other. By treating the other nicer, you're treating yourself nicer. These things cannot be separated. In buddhism, for example, we talk about the cultivation of the enlightened heart and the awakened mind.