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Kinds of Ego

Many forms of ego
One has many egos inside oneself. One becomes aware
of them when one begins to destroy them: when one has de-
stroyed an ego, that which was most troublesome, usually it
creates a kind of inner cyclone. When one comes out of the
storm, one feels, “Ah, now it is over, everything is done, I have
destroyed the enemy inside me, all is finished.” But after a
while, one notices that there is another, and another still, and
yet again another, and that in fact one is made of a heap of
little egos which are absolutely a nuisance and which must be
overcome one after another.
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Widening of the ego
There is a family ego, and it is very interesting because
it is the family ego which makes all the members of a family
resemble each other in some way or other; they are not the
same but resemble one another. One knows that they belong
to the same family and if one goes far back to the ancestors,
one sees that there is a similarity all down the line. Well, it is
the family ego, which is much more lasting than the individual
ego; and there is a national ego. And the families which are
not much intermixed, you see, which have remained without
intermixing very much, as for example, in the time of the aris-
tocrats, the aristocracy did not mix much, they remained in
one lineage, well, the characteristics of the ego are very clear;
for instance, the Bourbon families, the families of... in France
it is like that; from top to bottom, we find them very similar
among themselves in their appearance. Naturally, as soon as
races, species, nationalities intermix, it produces a mixture of

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